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Meghan Schiller reports: t’s a battle between transparency and legal quagmire: who should answer questions about the data breach of private health information for some 70,000 Pennsylvanians? KDKA’s Meghan Schiller talked to one local state senator who … Continue reading PA: Acting Secretary Of Health And Deputy Don’t Testify At Contact Tracing Data Breach Hearing
Haya Panjwani reports: A data breach at UH [University of Houston] graduation cap and gown vendor, Herff Jones, has some students’ bank information compromised. Mariah Ochoa, a psychology senior, tweeted about her debit card information being stolen on… Continue reading TX: Herff Jones data breach leaves students’ bank information compromised
Becky Bracken reports: A database filled with the medical records of nearly 200,000 U.S. military veterans was exposed online by a vendor working for the Veterans Administration, according to an analyst, who also presented evidence the data might have … Continue reading 200K Veterans’ Medical Records Exposed, But Were They Also Exfiltrated?
It seems we are not done hearing about entities impacted by the Netgain Technology ransomware incident. SAC Health System has now issued a press release. Previously disclosed entities: January 29 – Ramsey County notified 8,700 clients of Family H… Continue reading It seems we are not yet done hearing about the Netgain Technology breach
Jessica Davis has the somewhat predictable follow-up to a recently reported breach involving Insight Global, a contact tracing vendor for the Pennsylvania Department of Health: The Pennsylvania Department of Health and its third-party contractor Insigh… Continue reading PA Health Dept Sued; Investigation Looms, After Contact Tracing Breach
This is the kind of news story that people may miss because it was published on a Friday afternoon. But it is one that shouldn’t be missed…. Kat Jercich reports: A reported ransomware attack on the CompuGroup Medical data center part… Continue reading Reported ransomware attack leads to weeks of Aprima EHR outages
City News Service reports: San Diego Family Care announced Friday it has alerted current and former patients and employees about a computer security breach that may have involved their personal information. […] The issue came to light in December… Continue reading San Diego Family Care discloses possible data breach
CHICAGO, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The City of Chicago today announced that a third-party vendor executing a data transfer of a select group of City email files given to the law firm Jones Day as part of an independent inquiry being conducted by… Continue reading The City of Chicago Provides Notice of Jones Day Incident Due to Accellion Hack
In other posts on this site, three covered entities have already identified who were impacted by a breach involving CaptureRx. Now CaptureRx has issued a press release about the incident. It begins: SAN ANTONIO, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Captur… Continue reading CaptureRx – Notice of Data Incident
WKTV reports that Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare has disclosed that almost 18,000 of its patients were impacted by a breach at its business associate, CaptureRx. The breach occurred on February 6, and Faxton was notified on March 30. Investigation … Continue reading A breach of patient information included limited data on 17,655 patients of Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare.