Breach

An OCR investigation into Banner Health after an undetected hack of its payment processing system at its food and beverage outlets found possible HIPAA violations of “serious concern.”

Google's cellular network provider Google Fi has disclosed being impacted by a data breach stemming from the compromise of a third-party system with some of its customer data, reports SiliconAngle.

The FTC levied a $1.5 million civil penalty to resolve claims it failed to report the unauthorized disclosure of consumer health data with social media giants like Facebook and Google.

This week’s healthcare data breach roundup includes a patient notice sent far outside of the 60 day-timeline required by HIPAA and is led by an ongoing outage at Atlantic General Hospital in Maryland.

SiliconAngle reports that nearly 10 million customers of U.K. retailer JD Sports Fashion had their data stolen after a hack of its systems, impacting its JD, Blacks, Millets, MilletSport, Size?, and Scotts brands.

Separate data breaches have impacted the Lutheran Social Services of Illinois and Washington state-based Quality Behavioral Health, according to HealthITSecurity.

Data breaches hit UCLA Health, UCHealth HealthITSecurity reports that both Los Angeles-based UCLA Health and Colorado-based UCHealth have disclosed being impacted by third-party data breaches.

U.S. telecommunications firm Charter Communications has disclosed being affected by a third-party data breach after data claimed to be stolen from nearly 550,000 of its customers has been posted on a hacking forum, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.