Over 20,000 patients at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego are receiving HIPAA breach notification letters after employees accidentally emailed protected health information to job applicants on two separate occasions. One incident occurred almost two years ago, but patients are just now being notified. The information compromised included patients’ names, dates of birth, diagnoses, admit and discharge dates, medical record numbers, and insurance information. The hospital has hired an outside security firm to verify that the files have been deleted from the job applicants’ devices.
Middle East AWS Outage Sends Shockwaves Through Cloud Infrastructure Service
A severe infrastructure incident in the Middle East has triggered a massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, disrupting critical cloud operations across the region. The
