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Affinity 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...
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Mailing 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...
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Employee 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...
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OU 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...
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Medicaid 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),...
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Not-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...
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Center 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...
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Unsecured Email leads to data breach
Arkansas-based Nephropathology Associates, PLC (Nephropath) suffered data breach when one of its employees sent an unsecured email to a vendor that included PHI and de-identified information....
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Bon 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...
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EHN 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...
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Two 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...
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Retaliatory 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...
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Unencrypted 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...
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Email 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...
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Health 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...
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Hospital 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,...
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Android 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,...
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Starwood 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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Faxing Error and Data Breach
Quest Diagnostics suffered data breach due to improper fax number input. The incident resulted into class-action lawsuit following a fax-related healthcare data breach. According to the reports,...
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Lahey Hospital Agrees to HIPAA Settlement
Lahey Clinic Hospital, Inc. (Lahey) agreed to an OCR HIPAA settlement resulted due to an incident where an unencrypted laptop was stolen. It potentially compromised the PHI of 599 individuals. The...
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