See update at bottom of this post for statement from UMCSN. They do confirm that there was a breach. The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, who proudly proclaims itself the official healthcare provider for the Vegas Golden Knights, has allegedly been the victim of a cyberattack by REvil (Sodinokibi) threat actors. The well-known ransomware…
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Man who solicited patient records from University Medical Center of Southern Nevada employee sentenced to prison
The man who pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to receive and disclose University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC) patient records in order to solicit clients for personal injury attorneys, was sentenced on May 4 to 33 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. Richard W. Charette, 55, of Las Vegas,…
NV: Conspirator in case involving University Medical Center patient data pleads guilty
In November 2009, the Las Vegas Sun revealed that someone at University Medical Center in Las Vegas was leaking patient information to personal injury lawyers and chiropractors. I’ve posted a number of updates to the case, and today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the latest development. Doug McMurdo reports that Richard Charette pleaded guilty to having…
Almost half a million breached health records in January; 60% from one hacking incident alone
Protenus has released its Breach Barometer for January health data breaches. While the number of insider and external incidents continue to run pretty much neck-to-neck, once again external breaches accounted for significantly more breached records than insider incidents. Protenus reports: Of note, hacking incidents affected significantly more patient records, due largely to one particular breach…
December was one of the busiest months for health data breach disclosures
While you are eagerly awaiting the release of Protenus’s annual review of 2017 health data breaches, I thought I’d mention that December closed the year out with a bang with 52 possible breaches being disclosed. Only June, 2017 (with 53 reports) exceeded December. Of the 52 entries, 20 were hacking incidents and 17 were insider…
Lawsuit filed over UMC patient records leak
Steve Green reports: The fallout continued Friday over the Sun’s disclosure in November that confidential patient information was being leaked from University Medical Center. A lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed in District Court in Clark County against UMC and the man indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the patient privacy scandal….