A United kingdom based medical centre has become victim to hackers who have breached its system and replace the main index page with a fake warning sign. The website belongs to the town of tooting and it is the local medical centres (https://www.tootingsouthmedicalcentre.co.uk/) main information and services. The new index pages contains a strange warning message…
Month: December 2012
Anonymous Cyber Assault on Israel still continues
Over the past month or so one operation out of possible hundreds still continues to push on striking its targets on a daily basis The operation is Opisrael and was started after Israel started attacking the Gaza strip with air strikes. Since then there has been hundreds of sites attacked and thousands of personal details leaked. One of the latest sites to be…
100+ Sites hacked and defaced by Anonymous Pakistan
Anonymous Pakistan hackers have attacked and left over 100 sites defaced. The attack was announced to pastebin with a large list of sites, many of which had been duplicated leaving just over 100 genuine defaces and has been carried out by xPerf3cti0n. The attacks hasn’t focused on any particular country or server and leaves sites from new zealand, america,…
Carolinas HealthCare System notifies Carolinas Medical Center-Randolph patients after e-mail intrusion
From a statement posted today: Carolinas HealthCare System is notifying approximately 5,600 patients of Carolinas Medical Center-Randolph (CMC-Randolph) whose private information may have been breached by an unauthorized electronic intruder and approximately 700 additional patients of the affected provider as a precautionary measure even though no evidence has been found that their information was obtained…
State Farm and Nationwide fail to convince WV Supreme Court to let them retain – and share – medical records obtained under protective orders
Here’s another recent and interesting privacy case in West Virginia discussed by Bordas & Bordas, who have just been added to my bookmarks: In September, they wrote: Insurance companies routinely gather medical records in the course of taking applications and processing claims. What do you think they do with this private healthcare information? The answer…
West Virginia Supreme Court affirms HIPAA does not pre-empt state law tort claims for privacy violations
I seem to have missed a lawsuit that may be of interest to readers. Back in September, Bordas & Bordas, PLLC wrote: … What if our private information is released without our permission? What if it falls into the hands of someone who can actually cause us harm? These aren’t abstract or hypothetical questions. The danger…