Data Breach news and information

Officials at Greenwood, S.C.-based Self Regional Healthcare are still grappling with a Memorial Day weekend break-in at one of its administrative complexes that put hundreds of patients’ personal information at risk. A security breach occurred May 25 when two thieves broke into the Support...
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Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island will pay $150,000 to settle data breach allegations that affected more than 12,000 Massachusetts patients.
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A state appellate court Monday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit that could have cost Sutter Health more than $4 billion when it ruled that millions of the healthcare system's patients had no right to sue over the theft of a computer with their personal, medical and insurance records on its hard...
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Dr. John Jay Shannon was promoted to CEO at Cook County (Ill.) Health and Hospitals System in late June, and he already has been told to find $67 million in savings in four months.
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Administrators at Rady Children's Hospital took steps to prevent another patient data breach, the acting president of the San Diego hospital told a City Council committee this week. In June, an unidentified hospital employee mistakenly attached a document containing information on thousands of...
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Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Resources says personal information of 1,700 people in the company's employee wellness plan was hacked in March. The hacker gained access through a subcontractor's system to get individuals' names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, gender and dates of birth,...
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Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp. has now gone two for two in swatting away class-action lawsuits stemming from last summer's massive data breach involving more than 4 million of its patient records. Its legal challenges on this matter aren't over yet, however. Several other cases are pending.
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The Social Security numbers of roughly 18,000 California physicians and healthcare providers were inadvertently made public after a slip-up at health insurance provider Blue Shield of California, the organization said. The numbers were included in monthly filings on medical providers that Blue...
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When Joy Pritts steps down this month after 4½ years as the first chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, she'll leave convinced the feds have put extra oomph into privacy protection.
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The health world is flirting with disaster, say the experts who monitor crime in cyberspace. A hack that exposes the medical and financial records of tens of thousands of patients is coming, they say—it's only a matter of when.
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