Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica reported that an email that was misrouted in May exposed the protected health information of 1,178 patients, according to WTVG 13, an ABC affiliate.
Category: cybersecurity
US to return $500K healthcare providers paid in ransom to North Korea hackers
The federal government recovered $500,000 that two hospitals paid as ransom to North Korean hackers and plans to return the funds, according to a July 19 U.S. Justice Department statement.
BJC HealthCare to spend $2.7M to boost email security, settles breach suit
St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare agreed to a class action lawsuit settlement to resolve allegations that its poor cybersecurity led to a May 2020 phishing attack that compromised sensitive patient data.
iPad stolen from Kaiser Permanente hospital had info of 75,000 patients
An iPad with protected health information was stolen from Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in May, according to a July 17 report from City News Service of Southern California.
Physician accused of HIPAA breach after exiting practice for telehealth startup
Washington, D.C.-based Foxhall OB/GYN Associates accused Sharon Malone, MD, a former owner and physician at the practice, of taking patient information with her when she exited the practice to join telehealth startup Alloy, The Washington Examiner repo…
Nearly 2 million patients affected in collection agency data breach
A bill collector fell victim to a ransomware attack in February, potentially exposing the health information of more than 1.9 million patients, the federal government reported.
Vendor breach affects 130,000 medical records, including Wake Forest employees
A data breach involving a third-party benefits administrator affected 130,922 health plan members, including employees of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Wake Forest University, according to a July 1 submission to the HHS Office of Civil Rights.
Tower Health employee fired for record snooping, hospital says
Phoenixville (Pa.) Hospital has fired an employee for accessing patient medical records without authorization, the Reading Eagle reported July 8.
House panel to investigate reproductive health data privacy
A U.S. House of Representatives panel plans to examine whether data companies and personal health apps are keeping patients’ reproductive health data private in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, NBC reported July 8.
VCU Health misplaced protected info for transplant donors, recipients for 16 years
VCU Health disclosed they had recently learned that beginning as early as Jan. 4, 2006, information about transplant donors had accidentally been included in files for their transplant recipients and vice versa.
