Illinois theft compromises sensitive information
Illinois and North Carolina Barrington Orthopedic Specialists recently suffered data breach which reportedly affected 1,009 individuals. The PHI was compromised following the theft of a laptop and EMG...
View ArticleAffinity Health Plan data breach
Affinity Health Plan data breach As per the report, AHP members received reminder letters for renewing Child Health Plus for their children which also contained letter in a different language addressed...
View ArticleMailing Error leads to data breach
A Florida health plan suffered potential data breach after a mailing error. The incident caused some members to receive the personal information of other members. A machine that was programmed to...
View ArticleEmployee Access and Patient Data Security
Recent research shows that some organizations have loopholes in data access which can cause patient data security issues. Highlights of the research by IS Decisions are - 63 percent of healthcare staff...
View ArticleOU Medicine Suffers Data Breach
As per the reports, OU Medicine suffered data breach when a laptop potentially storing a spreadsheet containing limited patient information was stolen from a former OU physician. The spreadsheet in...
View ArticleMedicaid Data Breach in North Carolina
Medicaid Data Breach in North Carolina Affected information includes a spreadsheet with Medicaid recipients’ PHI. Information having first and last name, Medicaid identification number (MID),...
View ArticleNot-for-profit Community suffers data breach
California not-for-profit Community Catalysts of California, Inc. recently mentioned that a flash drive containing certain client information was stolen from an employee’s residence. The affected...
View ArticleCenter for Disability Rights suffers data breach
Center for Disability Rights (CDR) suffered potential data breach when protected health information (PHI) of individuals with disabilities was allegedly stolen. An employee of Angels in Your Home, a...
View ArticleBon Secours St. Francis Health System suffers data breach
Bon Secours St. Francis Health System in Greenville, South Carolina came to know about data breach when several employees were receiving unpaid balances for an antibiotic cream, and others were...
View ArticleEHN suffers data breach
El Paso-based Emergence Health Network (EHN) suffered data breach when its computer servers was assessed by an unauthorized user. Affected information includes first and last names, addresses, dates of...
View ArticleAPI and Security Risk
What is API? In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. An API expresses a software component in...
View ArticleStolen laptop leads to data breach
A New York City medical and mental health center recently suffered a potential PHI data breach after a laptop containing patient information was stolen. Affected information includes patient names,...
View ArticleTwo Separate Healthcare Data Breaches Expose Patients’ PHI
A California healthcare organization suffered two separate healthcare data breaches. First Data Breach Incident happened when some small glass laboratory slides and paper records were disposed of in a...
View ArticleRetaliatory agenda leads to data breach
Employee retaliatory agenda leads to theft at Children’s Medical Clinics in Texas. As per the report, an employee took paper patient records from the healthcare facility. The employee also used his...
View ArticleUnencrypted email and data breach
An unencrypted email resulted in potential health information data breach for over 500 patients in North Carolina. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has experienced a...
View ArticleEmail and health data breach
The University of Cincinnati Medical Center suffered data breach which potentially compromised the PHI of 1,064 individuals. The medical center has experienced nine such incidents in past of emailing...
View ArticleHealth Care CyberSecurity
The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) Co-founder and Senior Fellow Parham Eftekhari had the discussion with ‘HealthITSecurity’ about Cybersecurity Health Care CyberSecurity...
View ArticleHospital suffers data breach
OH Muhlenberg, LLC recently suffered a keystroke logger cyberattack, which lead to a health data breach. Affected information includes patient names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth,...
View ArticleAndroid vs iPhone Security
Android vs iPhone Security Apple/iOS Pros of Apple’s iOS include the fact that it is proprietary, closed-source and more secure “by fault” with a single user per device,” said Jason Van Zanten,...
View ArticleStarwood Hotels & Resorts cyber attack
Starwood Hotels & Resorts suffered data breach when undisclosed amount of customer payment card data may have been accessed. The incident happened when the point of sale systems at 54 of its hotels...
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