A Moffitt Cancer Center physician reported two personal electronic storage drives and print outs of clinical schedules that contained information about thousands of patients were stolen from his car.
Cybersecurity
The Blackbaud security breach affected more than 25,000 nonprofit organizations worldwide, including many health systems in the U.S.
Chinese hackers targeted the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and other schools to steal coronavirus vaccine data, according to The New York Times.
Assured Imaging, a mobile digital mammography provider in Tucson, Ariz., is notifying more than 244,800 patients that their protected health information was exposed after its EHR system was attacked with ransomware.
HHS' Office for Civil Rights on Sept. 1 updated its previous Health App Developer Portal and changed it to a HIPAA resource page for cloud computing, mobile health apps and application programming interfaces.
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Charleston, S.C.-based Roper St. Francis Hospital began notifying 6,000 patients Sept. 3 that their medical records and information had been exposed after a hospital employee's email account was hacked, according to local ABC affiliate WCIV.
Two major health systems in the Midwest were affected by the global data security incident at Blackbaud, a company that hosts fundraising data for large organizations.
A nurse in southern Illinois claims she was fired from the Clinton County Health Department in April after she refused to violate HIPAA, according to a report from the Belleville News-Democrat.
Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children's Medical Center reported a box containing radiology images missing from a secured storage room.
In August, 13 organizations reported to HHS a collective total of 783,364 individuals being affected by data breaches.