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Health Data Breach Tally s 2021 Surge Continues
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Another big wave of large breaches stemming from hacking incidents, including ransomware attacks, has flooded the federal tally of major health data breaches in recent weeks.
Nearly 100 new breaches have been posted to the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website, which lists health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals.
As of Thursday, the HHS Office for Civil Rights website showed 251 major breaches had been added to the tally so far this year, affecting a total of nearly 17.3 million individuals. That’s a big jump since April 19, when the tally listed 159 breaches affecting a combined total of 12.5 million individuals (see:
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San Ysidro Health, a health care provider with 47 clinics serving 108,000 people, has notified its community that it was the victim of a cyberattack in late 2020 and that data containing the personal information of patients was compromised.
The news about San Ysidro comes in the wake of headlines last week about an outage at Scripps Health that has continued into this week. An official at the California Department of Public Health described that incident as a ransomware attack.
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San Diego Family Care Center discloses possible data breach
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Family Care announced Friday it has alerted current and former patients and employees about a computer security breach that may have involved their personal information.
Though there is no evidence that anyone s personal information was misused, the health services provider said it was advising potentially impacted people about the issue, and steps they can take to protect themselves, as a precaution.
The potentially affected data includes names; dates of birth; Social Security numbers or other government identifiers; financial account numbers; medical diagnosis or treatment information; health-insurance information; and client identification numbers, according to SDFC officials.
San Diego Family Care Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident
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SAN DIEGO, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ San Diego Family Care ( SDFC ) has learned of a data security incident that may have impacted personal and protected health information belonging to certain current and former SDFC patients and employees. SDFC has sent notification of this incident to potentially impacted individuals and has provided resources to assist them.
In December 2020, SDFC and its business associate, Health Center Partners of Southern California (HCP), became aware that their information technology hosting provider experienced a data security incident that resulted in the encryption of certain data. The hosting provider took steps to secure and restore its systems and launched an investigation with the assistance of computer forensics experts. At that time, SDFC did not know what, if any, data belonging to SDFC or HCP may have been involved in t