Sam Bocetta reports: The approach was simple, a combination email scam and social engineering phone call. All it took was a call to St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, claiming to be Marous Brothers Construction, a company working on a church renovation project for the past two months. But the phone call wasn’t from Marous Brothers Construction….
Month: June 2019
Riviera Beach agrees to $600,000 ransom payment to regain data access
Tony Doris reports: The Riviera Beach City Council has authorized the city’s insurer to pay nearly $600,000 worth of ransom to regain access to data walled off through an attack on the city’s computer systems. In a meeting Monday night announced only days before, the board voted 5-0 to authorize the city insurer to pay…
AG James Backs Data Breach Protection Act Passed by Legislature
Jason Grant reports: State lawmakers have passed legislation that would “modernize” and update consumer data protections and expand New York Attorney General Letitia James’ oversight of data breaches affecting New Yorkers, according to a news release issued by James “applauding” the act’s passage. Called the “Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act,” or SHIELD…
Now THIS is painful: PainMD tells bankruptcy court it lost access to its own patients’ records
OK, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a breach report quite like this one, so grab your favorite beverage and read what Brett Kelman reports on a company that ran into trouble with regulators and then filed for bankruptcy…. and in the process, managed to lose access to all their patients’ stored records because the…
AU: Specsavers says Qld customers’ private medical information may have been compromised
Sarah Jane Bell and Ross Kay report that an undisclosed numbers of Specsavers customers have had their personal and medical information stolen: “Contents may include your name, date of birth, address, phone number, email address, clinical records of your optometry tests, and Medicare details,” the email read. How the information was compromised is still being…
Medical Records Left Behind From Shuttered Chatham Medical Facility After It Lost State Health Department License And Medicare Certification
Dana Kozlov reports on tremendous amount of paper medical records left behind behind the now-shuttered former Medical Professional Home Healthcare Center in Chatham. Read more on CBS and their follow-up here. So okay, folks, you really need to at least look at the pictures in those stories. It’s *disgusting* what has happened to patients’ records….