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Health Insurance Provider Blue Shield of California Discloses Accidental Sharing of Customer Health Data Via Google Analytics

April 29, 2025

A major data breach at health insurance giant Blue Shield of California appears to be a case of misconfiguring advertising analytics tools. Between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was misconfigured causing some personal information and potentially sensitive health data related to claims and searches to be available to Google’s ad network.

Hands typing on keyboard showing health data breach

Cyber Security News

Planned Parenthood Lab Services Provider LSC Leaks Extensive Health Data of 1.6 Million People

April 17, 2025

Planned Parenthood lab services provider Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) has disclosed a data breach that exposed the health data of 1.6 million people after hackers breached its systems.

Stethoscope on keyboard showing data breach of health data

Cyber Security News

Oracle Health Data Breach Affected Multiple Hospitals Potentially Leaking Sensitive Patient Information

April 14, 2025

Oracle Health data breach stemming from a legacy server affected multiple hospitals and healthcare organizations, potentially leaking sensitive patient information.

Stethoscope on laptop keyboard showing third-party breach of health data

Cyber Security News

HealthEquity Third-Party Breach Leaks Personal and Health Data of 4.3 Million People

August 8, 2024

HealthEquity is notifying 4.3 million individuals of a third-party breach that leaked their personal (PII) and protected health information (PHI) after an unauthorized actor accessed a vendor’s data repository.

Hacker hand stealing data showing MOVEit data breach of government contractor impact health data

Cyber Security News

MOVEit Data Breach Hits US Government Contractor, Exposes Health Data of 8 to 11 Million People

August 2, 2023

The damage tally from the massive MOVEit data breach continues to go up, as a US government contractor is reporting that 8 to 11 million records of health data have been exposed.

Medicine doctor working with digital medical interface showing health data and data privacy regulations

Data Protection Insights

My Health My Data! Washington Poised to Upend How Companies Handle Health Information

June 26, 2023

Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”) broad scope and definitions will undoubtedly expand its reach to data not normally considered health data and businesses who do not traditionally consider themselves to be health care providers or to be collecting consumer health data.

Customer in pharmacy holding medicine bottle showing GoodRX health data and FTC fine for sharing data

Data Privacy News

GoodRX Fined for Sharing Data; Health Data Provided to Facebook, Google, Other Third-Party Firms for Advertising

February 6, 2023

GoodRX admits no wrongdoing in the settlement, claiming that the health data it shared could not identify an individual user's health condition. The company was found to be sharing data with 20 marketing firms.

Medibank health insurance company branch showing refusal of ransom payments led to leak of health data on dark web

Cyber Security News

Medibank Refuses Ransom Payments, Hackers Leak Stolen Health Data to Dark Web

November 14, 2022

Medibank has opted to ignore demands for ransom payments for the recent data breach of about 9.7 million health data records. Criminals have published a fraction of the stolen data on the dark web, including those of high-profile politicians.

Medicine doctor with tablet showing health data and Facebook ads

Data Privacy News

Study Finds Medical Apps Are Sharing Health Data With Third Party Trackers, Funneling Info To Targeted Facebook Ads

August 25, 2022

Apps handling sensitive health data, including some that interface with labs and other entities covered by HIPAA privacy regulations, were found to be sharing health data with third party trackers that provide cues for targeted Facebook ads.

Woman in the city with smartwatch and earphones showing fitness tracking data

Cyber Security News

Mass Leak of Fitness Tracking Data Hits Fitbit, Apple, Microsoft, Google; 60 Million Records Exposed by Improperly Configured Third-Party Database

September 21, 2021

A third-party platform that has the ability to pull fitness tracking data from nearly all of the major wearable device providers has been breached, leaving about 61 million records exposed.

Health Data

Health Insurance Provider Blue Shield of California Discloses Accidental Sharing of Customer Health Data Via Google Analytics

Planned Parenthood Lab Services Provider LSC Leaks Extensive Health Data of 1.6 Million People

Oracle Health Data Breach Affected Multiple Hospitals Potentially Leaking Sensitive Patient Information

HealthEquity Third-Party Breach Leaks Personal and Health Data of 4.3 Million People

MOVEit Data Breach Hits US Government Contractor, Exposes Health Data of 8 to 11 Million People

My Health My Data! Washington Poised to Upend How Companies Handle Health Information

Medibank Refuses Ransom Payments, Hackers Leak Stolen Health Data to Dark Web

Study Finds Medical Apps Are Sharing Health Data With Third Party Trackers, Funneling Info To Targeted Facebook Ads

Mass Leak of Fitness Tracking Data Hits Fitbit, Apple, Microsoft, Google; 60 Million Records Exposed by Improperly Configured Third-Party Database

Health Insurance Provider Blue Shield of California Discloses Accidental Sharing of Customer Health Data Via Google Analytics

2025 Verizon DBIR: Cyber Attacks Increasingly Driven by Vulnerability Exploitation, VPNs and Edge Devices Heavily Targeted

CISA Warns About Heightened Security Risks from the Alleged Oracle Cloud Credential Leak

Medusa Ransomware Gang Claims NASCAR Data Breach Leaking Over 1 Terabyte of Sensitive Information