22,000 dental patients’ info exposed on unsecured Eaglesoft FTP server
Eaglesoft software by Patterson Dental is a popular patient management system. But just as Justin Shafer had concerns about patient data security in Henry Schein’s Dentrix G5 software, he’s also had...
View ArticleFL: Radiology Regional Center Notifies Patients After Paper Records Fell Out...
Radiology Regional Center, PA, a physician-owned and managed diagnostic facility with nine locations in Florida, announced today that on December 19, 2015, Radiology Regional Center was informed by its...
View ArticleCommenters on Henry Schein consent order: FTC was too lenient
Public comments on the consent order in FTC v. Henry Schein Practice Solutions are now available. The FTC will be responding to commenters, but I wanted to note one particular point raised by commenter...
View ArticleThat Radiology Regional Center vendor’s breach potentially affected almost...
When Radiology Regional Center in Florida disclosed that paper records had been lost or fallen off the truck of its vendor, Lee County Solid Waste Division, they reported that they believed that they...
View ArticleStolen contractor laptop had special-education student data for Montgomery...
Donna St. George reports: A contractor working with the Montgomery County school system has informed the parents of about 340 special-education students that the children’s private data was on a...
View ArticleCA: Medical records found dumped on Paradise Hills sidewalk
KGTV reports: Medical documents containing names and Social Security numbers for hundreds of patients were found dumped on a Paradise Hills sidewalk Monday morning. The records were discovered by a man...
View ArticleDaesh hackers threaten 55 New Jersey police officers by releasing home...
James Wilkinson reports: ISIS hackers have threatened 55 New Jersey police officers by releasing their names, addresses, telephone numbers and working locations online. The Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA),...
View ArticleWI: Hackers compromise Ozaukee Co. workers’ tax info
WISN reports that Ozaukee County workers became victims of tax refund fraud after their W-2 and Form 1095 tax information was compromised in a hack of GreenShades‘ web site. The county employees use...
View ArticleHackers Claim Breach Of Ku Klux Klan’s Security Company, Staminus (update2)
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: A website run by the Ku Klux Klan has been downed as part of what appears to be a significant breach of its host and security provider Staminus. The company, which promises...
View ArticleNorth Memorial Hospital settles HHS charges for $1.55M
First: refresh your memory of a 2011 breach involving Accretive Health, a business associate of North Memorial Hospital. Then read HHS’s press release how that breach just cost North Memorial Hospital...
View ArticleGerman cops in India to probe data-breach case
Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: The CID, along with German cops, is raiding several places in Salt Lake and New Town for the past 48 hours in connection with a fraud worth several crores involving a German...
View ArticleNJ: Virtua Medical Group notifies 1,654 patients whose information was...
On March 11, Burlington County Times reported: Virtua Medical Group, the network of doctors exclusively affiliated with the South Jersey health system, reported Friday that patient information —...
View ArticleIllinois Valley Podiatry Group warned 26,588 patients after contractor hacked...
So I had missed this item from the Journal Star on March 8th: The Illinois Valley Podiatry Group, 3322 W. Willow Knolls Drive, has announced that it has became aware of unauthorized access to its...
View ArticleNY: Focused Technologies Imaging Services to pay more than $3 million for...
New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that an Albany-area tech company and its principals will pay more than $3 million in...
View ArticleA.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement After Social Security Numbers Of Over...
The NYS Attorney General’s has announced a settlement following a data breach I never heard about. And I’m guessing that some people will grumble that the monetary penalty is too light. NEW YORK –...
View ArticleData breach exposes thousands of expats’ details in Thailand
AFP reports: The personal details of thousands of foreign nationals living in the South were briefly leaked online in what the site’s developer admitted Monday was a data breach during a test for...
View ArticleVulnerabilities in a Third-Party Healthcare Payment Processor
Randy Westergren looked into Christiana Care’s online payment portal, which involves a third party payment processor developed by BYL Companies, LLC. What Randy found was very concerning, and he...
View ArticleVal Verde alerting patients after data breach discovered
Val Verde Regional Medical Center recently discovered a security breach involving a small number of the facility’s overall patient population. On or about Aug. 9, 2015, an independent healthcare...
View ArticleEscambia County School hit with payroll system security breach
Stephanie Nelson reports: The Escambia County School System is one of three in the state hit with a payroll accounting system security breach that allowed fraudulent tax returns to be filed in employee...
View ArticleOptumRx notifying patients after laptop with PHI stolen from vendor’s...
Now what vendor was this? I don’t see anything in recent reports or on HHS’s public breach tool that would identify the vendor. From a notification template by OptumRx: We wanted to make you aware of a...
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