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August 01, 2015

One In Four Indiana Residents' E-Record Data Exposed in Hack

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: August 1st, 2015, 10:00pm UTC
Reader chicksdaddy reports that a data breach involving four million patients and more than 230 different data holders (from private practices to large hospitals) hit Indiana especially hard. It's the home state of Medical Informatics Engineering, maker of electronic records system NoMoreClipBoard. While data exposed in the breach affected 3.9 million people, 1.5 millon of them are in Indiana. According to the Security Ledger, though: [The] breach affects healthcare organizations from across the country, with 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. And, 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. 'We have received no information from MIE regarding that,' said a spokeswoman for Fort Wayne Radiology Association (http://www.fwradiology.com/), one of hundreds of healthcare organizations whose information was compromised in the attack on MIE..pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=One+In+Four+Indiana+Residents'+E-Record+Data+Exposed+in+Hack%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1JECPDo"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F08%2F01%2F2221256%2Fone-in-four-indiana-residents-e-record-data-exposed-in-hack%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/08/01/2221256/one-in-four-indiana-residents-e-record-data-exposed-in-hack?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/08/01/2221256/one-in-four-indiana-residents-e-record-data-exposed-in-hack?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/mejPhK1Uyls" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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