On March 29, Burrell Behavioral Health published a news release about an unnamed business associate accidentally exposing ePHI of more than 67,000 patients back in August, 2018. Burrell’s notification, reproduced below, does not indicate when the problem was first detected nor how they learned of it, but it was they who notified their business associate…
Month: March 2019
NY: Albany attacked by ransomware hack, mayor says
Diego Mendoza-Moyers reports: Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Saturday said in a social media post that the city experienced a ransomware cyber attack. “We are currently determining the extent of the compromise. We are committed to keeping you informed and will provide updates as they become available,” she tweeted. Read more on Times Union, although…
Plaintiffs in Casino Rama class-action lawsuit and defendants argue in court over how big the class should be.
In November, 2016, Casino Rama in Ontario disclosed that it had been hacked. Shortly thereafter, we learned that some of that data had already been leaked online. The hackers, who signed themselves as “Anonymous Threat Agent,” wrote that the breach was “extremely simple” and that “no security systems were in place leaving the whole casino…
DePaul experienced phishing-related data breach, notified 902 health program clients (updated, corrected)
Correction of April 9, 2019: It appears that although DePaul reviewed 41,000 emails, they wound up needing to notify only 902 patients. Sarah Taddeo reports: Local housing and health provider DePaul experienced a data breach in February that exposed some clients’ sensitive information, the organization announced Friday. The incident was deemed a “phishing scam” — a hacking…
HIV data leak: Farrera-Brochez tells US court he has complied with order to delete stolen data
Charissa Young reports: WASHINGTON – Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the American at the centre of Singapore’s HIV registry leak, has promised to delete all information obtained from the Singapore Government in accordance with a court order granted to the Ministry of Health (MOH). The 34-year-old also swore, in a written statement filed with a US court on…
Hacker pleads guilty to accessing Apple accounts of famous athletes and rappers
Makena Kelly reports: On Wednesday, a Georgia man pleaded guilty to hacking into the Apple accounts of several famous musicians and athletes and spending thousands of dollars from the victims’ accounts. According to the Justice Department, Kwamaine Jerell Ford, 27, obtained the login credentials belonging to dozens of professional athletes, including NBA and NFL players,…