The following press release is by what appears to be a business associate under HIPAA. It does not name the covered entities whose patients or insured members may have been impacted. Will we see notices from those covered entities? Probably not, unless more than 500 were affected for a particular covered entity. The notice...
Fox16 reports: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge today sent an advisory letter to medical licensees throughout Arkansas about their duty to report a data breach under the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). The PIPA reporting guidelines, amended in July 2019, mandate that individuals, agencies and businesses notify the Attorney General’s Office at the same time as...
Solara Medical Supplies, LLC in Chula Vista, California is notifying some of their patients and employees after discovering that attackers had successfully gained access to some employees’ email accounts that contained employee and patient information. According to a press release issued Tuesday, on June 28, 2019, Solara determined that an unknown actor had gained access...
Hilary Bird reports: Almost a year after boxes of personal medical records were found at the Fort Simpson dump, the Northwest Territories Information and Privacy Commissioner hasn’t had time to investigate the breach. A spokesperson for Elaine Keenan-Bengts’ office says that because of a backlog, the commissioner won’t be able to look into the...
Exclusive: More than 90,000 patient billing files from an alcohol and drug addiction treatment network exposed online