Hack Notice

Hack Notice: VA Caribbean Healthcare System

VA Caribbean Healthcare System

Description
An employee of the covered entity (CE), va Caribbean Healthcare System, left documents containing the protected health info (PHI) of 6,006 individuals in an unsecure handbag at a nursing station. The PHI included names, social security numbers, patient care assignments, patient counts and patient census lists. Upon discovery of the hack, the CE secured the PHI and provided hack notification to HHS, the media, and affected individuals. As a result of OCR's investigation, the CE disciplined and retrained the employee and implemented a procedure that nursing leaders is required to conduct rounds on wards once vacated. The CE also retrained all staff on its privateness and security policies and procedures. placement of hacked information: Paper/Films business associate present: No

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HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients. HackNotice monitors data streams related to breaches, leaks, and hacks and VA Caribbean Healthcare System was reported by one of those streams. HackNotice may also have the breach date, hack date, the hacker responsible, the hacked industry, the hacked location, and any other parts of the hack, breach, or leak that HackNotice can report on for the consumers of our product.

If you are a user of VA Caribbean Healthcare System their products, services, websites, or applications and you were a client of HackNotice, monitoring for VA Caribbean Healthcare System you may have been alerted to this report about VA Caribbean Healthcare System . HackNotice is a service that provides data, information, and monitoring that helps our clients recover from and remediate data breaches, hacks, and leaks of their personal information. HackNotice provides a service that helps our clients know what to do about a hack, breach, or leak of their information.

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