Catalin Cimpanu reports: Eatstreet, an online and mobile food ordering service, disclosed today a security breach that took place last month and during which a hacker stole the company’s database, complete with customer and partner details. ZDNet has learned that responsible for this breach is Gnosticplayers, a hacker who previously breached many other online services,…
Month: June 2019
Email gaffes are still a thing. Why? HIV patients hit by NHS Highland email privacy breach
BBC reports: The email addresses of almost 40 people who have HIV have been made public by mistake. It is understood the 37 patients in the Highlands were able to see their own and the others people’s addresses in an email from NHS Highland. Read more on BBC.
MA: ResiDex Software discloses ransomware incident affecting clients’ patients’ protected health information
And yet another ransomware incident. They do not disclose the number of patients who were notified about this. Of note, sounds like their recovery was pretty smooth because they were prepared. BOSTON, June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Tenx Systems, LLC d/b/a ResiDex Software (“ResiDex”) specializes in providing software for assisted living homes, group homes, and organizations…
Two Maryland medical practices notify patients after business associate error exposes patient information
Maryland-based Capitol Cardiology Associates (CCA) and Southern Maryland Medical Group (SMMG) are notifying patients because of an incident involving a third-party vendor/business associate. According to their notification letters, on March 14, Meditab Software, Inc. became aware of a potential breach involving protected health information (phi). The breach may have included patients’ medical records or visit…
Confidential data of New York company breached in Mumbai
Somendranath Sharma reports: Confidential data entrusted to a Bhayandar-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company by a New York-based company was compromised recently. This has led to a police investigation, and the corporate espionage angle is also being probed. The BPO company registered an FIR stating that email addresses of the New York-based debt recovery company,…
NY: Cyber attacks cripple Olean Medical Group, possibly Seneca Nation Health System
Bob Clark reports: Hackers attempting to ransom the computer systems at Olean Medical Group on Friday did not access records for 40,000 patients, group officials reported Monday. In a faxed press release sent Monday, OMG officials noted the group is still seeing patients, even if charting is being completed by pen and paper instead of…