The Dundalk Democrat reports: Councillor Tomás Sharkey has hit out at the latest breach of patient privacy in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. “Last week patients and their families received calls from management of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. The call was to apologise for the fact that personal files, found in a public place…
Month: March 2016
Hackers Seek Ransom From Two More California Hospitals
Chad Terhune reports: Hackers demanded a ransom from two more Southern California hospitals last week and federal authorities are investigating the case. Prime Healthcare Services Inc., a fast-growing national hospital chain, said the attackers infiltrated computer servers on Friday at two of its California hospitals, Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino and Desert Valley Hospital…
Plan Ahead, Stay On Top of Government and Tech Changes, and Be Ready to Call the FBI: Key Lessons from the PHI Protection Network Conference
Abraham J. Rein of Post & Schell has a nice recap of some of the recurring themes at last week’s PHI Protection Network conference in Philadelphia. Here’s a snippet of his post from the section about about law enforcement’s message to attendees: …. Michael Stawasz, Deputy Chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Computer Crime and…
Three members of Syrian Electronic Army charged by feds
Three Syrian nationals, all current or former members of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), were charged with multiple conspiracies related to computer hacking, according to two criminal complaints unsealed today in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia. Ahmad Umar Agha, 22, known online as “The Pro,” and Firas Dardar, 27, known…
NY: Treasure trove of Grand Street Medical Associates patient data exposed and indexed
Grand Street Medical Associates is a multi-disciplinary practice in Kingston, New York. At some point, what appears to be a vast amount of their patients’ protected health information was left exposed on an unsecured FTP server. The leak was discovered by a security researcher, who notified GSMA and then contacted DataBreaches.net on March 12. According…
Concordia warns university community about possible computer security breach
Karen Seidman reports: The Concordia University community got a lesson in computer security on Monday after the university had to send out a notice telling students and staff that keylogger devices — which can capture keystrokes — were found on some workstations in the Webster and Vanier libraries. They were only found on express workstations, which can be…