The Boston-based nonprofit health system, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., discovered personal data and protected health information (PHI) had been accessed by computers infected with malware in May 2017. The breach involved more than 2,600 individuals of which Partners notified on Feb. 5. According to Boston Business Journal: The nonprofit health system, whose hospitals include Massachusetts […]
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Aetna to Pay $17 Million for HIV Breach
There are so many ways to breach protected health information (PHI) – both high tech and low tech – and even Aetna is finding out how expensive a simple low tech breach can be when patients are hurt. Aetna just agreed to pay $ 17 million because it used open windows on its envelopes. Last summer […]
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BA Leaves Data Exposed on Web, Causing Breach
A business associate (BA) of healthcare provider Bon Secours, left personal information of more than 650,000 patients exposed on the internet for four days, revealing names, insurance ID numbers, banking info, Social Security numbers, and clinical data. The breach was discovered by Bon Secours. WTKR reported the healthcare chain discovered that R-C Healthcare Management had […]
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