Each month we provide an overview of the healthcare breaches occurring in the previous month. In November, healthcare breaches affected 1,157,813 patients. November healthcare breaches are discussed below. The [...]
NTreatment, an electronic medical record vendor, accidentally exposed thousands of patient files by failing to password protect one of its cloud servers. The details of the EHR vendor breach [...]
Back in August, Mayo Clinic announced that one of their former employees inappropriately accessed the medical records of 1,600 patients. This insider breach led several affected patients to file [...]
It was recently announced that the Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) mailed out breach letters to 10,000 patients. These patients, who had been tested for COVID-19, had their [...]
AspenPointe Inc., a mental health and substance abuse provider, suffered a cyberattack that allowed unauthorized access to their network. Details regarding the mental health services breach are discussed. Mental [...]
So far in November, the HHS OCR has posted four healthcare breaches on their breach portal, three of which were reported on the same day. These three healthcare PHI [...]
Luxottica, a business associate that owns popular eye care clinic chains including Target Optical, EyeMed, and LensCrafters, fell victim to a breach that affected 829,454 patients. More details on [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) publicly displays breaches affecting 500 or more patients on their breach portal. In October, there were [...]
Timberline Billing Service, LLC., a business associate that provides Medicaid reimbursement and billing services to 190 school districts in Iowa, suffered a breach affecting 116,131 patients. More details on [...]
Hackers demand ransom from patients after a hacked Finnish healthcare provider declined to pay the ransom for the return of patient files. More details are discussed. What Caused Hackers [...]
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