California’s Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) last week disclosed that its three facilities were affected by a ransomware attack on a third-party system that allowed adversaries to access patient data and encrypt it for the purposes of extortion.
A one-time employee of Midwestern health care system SSM Health with legitimate access to thousands of patients’ records allegedly violated HIPAA privacy regulations in a data breach incident, the St. Louis-based company disclosed on Dec. 29.
How many victims? 18,470 patients What type of information? Patient names birthdates, medical record numbers, provider names, dates of service, department names, locations, medical conditions and health insurers were compromised in the incident. What happened? On Oct. 3, 2017, officials learned someone gained access to or stole the email credentials of a group of employees. These credentials…
Federal investigators have warned the Atlanta Public School system that all 6,000 of its employees may have had their personal information compromised due to a phishing scam.
More than 19,000 patient records were exposed during a ransomware attack on Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants, PA that took place in June.
Almost 9,000 patients of Silver Cross hospital, outside of Chicago, possibly had their data exposed due to an error made by a third-party vendor.
About 106,000 patients of the Mid-Michigan Physicians clinic may have had their patient records exposed when a third-party server was breached. How many victims? 106,000 What type of information? The medical records that were possibly exposed could contain the person’s name, birth date, address, phone number, medical record number, diagnosis and Social Security number. What…
The Daniel Drake Center (DDC) for Post-Acute Care, which is part of the University of California’s health system, reported patient information was accessed and viewed by an unauthorized employee over a two-year period.
The personal information of millions of job seekers across ten states was compromised when an attacker managed to exploit a vulnerability in the application code of the America’s Job Link Alliance division of the Kansas Department of Commerce.
The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) has alerted more than 1,500 of a data breach caused by an employee who shared personal information with unauthorized individuals.
