GovInfoSecurity
HealthInfoSec) • April 30, 2021
The Wyoming health department is the latest entity to experience a PHI leak on GitHub.
Recent incidents involving inadvertent exposure of patient data on GitHub, a software development and version control platform designed for collaboration, point to the need to ensure that data loss prevention tools are implemented, available security controls are leveraged and employees are made aware of the risks involved in using internet-facing platforms.
In the most recent incident, COVID-19 test results and other sensitive data of 164,000 individuals collected by the Wyoming Department of Health were exposed on GitHub.
In another incident earlier this month, the PHI of 136,000 individuals was accidentally exposed on GitHub by an employee of revenue cycle management vendor Med-Data Inc.
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Eight people were wounded in shootings across Chicago Thursday, including a person critically hurt in an attack on the Dan Ryan expressway.
A male passenger, whose age was not immediately known, was shot and taken in critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago Fire officials and state police said.
The male driver and female passenger were not injured, state police said.
Thursday night, two men were wounded in a shooting in Brighton Park on the Southwest Side.
The men were walking on the sidewalk about 8:15 p.m. in the 3500 block of South Francisco Avenue when a dark-colored vehicle pulled up near one of the men and someone inside began firing shots, police said.
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Several Chicago hospitals earned low marks in two separate reports released this week, while Rush University Medical Center earned top scores from both.
No one was injured Wednesday night when a group under surveillance by Chicago police opened fire on the officers on the South Side, prompting at least one officer to shoot toward the group, police said.