Author name: HIPAA Editor

University of Rochester Medicine’s Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville, NY is presently encountering a digital assault that has created unanticipated downtime. The assault is comprehended to have begun on Wednesday, December 27 and has produced disturbance for some of its data administrations. At the moment, the nature of the digital assault is indistinct and it …

Jones Memorial Hospital Cautions Patients About Progressing Digital Assault Read More »

The Langone Healthcare system found that the file containing the information about pre-surgical insurance has been repossessed by a company (cleaning company) in October. The file contained the information of about 2000 patients. The data included in the file contains the information about the names of the patients, the date of births, the service providing …

6600 Individuals found that their PHI has been stolen Read More »

The Children’s Hospital in Log Angeles is informing the parents for the breach of children’s PHI to the irrelevant insurance authorities. The breach was found on 29th November 2017 while the notifications were sent to victims on 19th December. The privacy breach included the names, medical records, their numbers, addresses, the services dates, the dates …

The Children’s Hospital in the Los Angeles Informed the Parents for Exposure of PHI of Children Read More »

A scrub nurse took photographs of the patient’s genitals. She shared those photos with the colleague and got fired because of such activity. The patient was also the employee of the hospital and thus filed a case for the damages because of the accident. The patient was treated for the Hernia problems at Washington Hospital …

A Scrub Nurse Got Fired for Taking Photographs of Patient-Employee’s Genitals Read More »

One of the dental practices in Reno faced a Ransomware issue because of which the dental records and images were not accessed for at least 5 days. The attack was found on 30th October 2017. The affected software was used on the device and the server by the management of the practice. It is the …

Ransomware Attack Caused the Loss of Dental Record Access for 5 Days Read More »

Colorado Mental Health Institute (CMHI) at Pueblo found that one of their employees has become the victim of the Phishing Attack helped the attackers to get access to the Protected Health Information of 650 patients of the hospital. Colorado Mental Health Institute is one of the best hospitals that contains 449 beds and provide proper …

The Phishing Scam on the CMHI (Colorado Mental Health Institute) Found the Exposure of PHI Read More »