Doctors Still In the Dark After Electronics Records Hack Exposes Data on 4 Million
https://securityledger.com/2015/07/doctors-still-in-the-dark-after-electronics-records-hack-exposes-data-on-4-million/ Four million patients of more than 230 hospitals, doctors offices and clinics had patient data exposed in a May hack ofFort Wayne, Indiana firm Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) and its NoMoreClipBoard electronic health records system, according to the Indiana Attorney General. The breach affected 3.9 million people in total, 1.5 million in Indiana alone, almost a quarter of the state's population, according to a statement by the Indiana Attorney General's Office. The breach affects healthcare organizations from across the country. Healthcare providers ranging from prominent hospitals to individual physicians' offices and clinics are among 195 customers of the NoMoreClipboard product that had patient information exposed in the breach. However, more than a month after the breach was discovered, some healthcare organizations whose patients were affected are still waiting for data from EMI on how many and which patients had information exposed, the Security Ledger has learned. "We have received no information from MIE regarding that," said a spokeswoman for Fort Wayne Radiology Association, one of hundreds of healthcare organizations whose information was compromised in the attack on MIE. Calls and e-mail messages seeking comment from EMI were not returned. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
