Finally, finally, FINALLY: exposed patient files from the Bolton Walk-In Clinic in Ontario have been secured. Now that the data is locked down, we can reveal more details about a seriously frustrating data leak that remained unsecured for at least 10 months while the clinic ignored all our notifications and alerts. It’s a story that…
Eric Priezkalns reports: A business student who was interning at Société Générale, a leading multinational bank headquartered in France, is believed to have fed information to SIM swappers who stole from 50 customers of the bank, reports Le Parisien. The intern’s arrest prompted officers from France’s fraud police (La Brigade des Fraudes aux Moyens de Paiement,…
Isaac Callan and Colin D’Mello report that Ontario’s health minister is ordering atHome, a provincial agency, to immediately notify approximately 200,000 patients whose data may have been breached in a vendor’s cyberattack in March. There appears to have been a breakdown in what should have happened, as the Health Minister reported that atHome had failed…
When Cybernews published an article about a 16 billion credentials leak, some of us strongly criticized the article as irresponsible and misleading journalism. Although some people have tried to suggest that the Cybernews article had some value in highlighting infostealers, the article was so riddled with falsehoods and misleading statements that the confusion and misunderstandings…
Attacks on revenue cycle management (RCM) firms and debt collection firms often provide criminals with a wealth of personal and protected health information because successfully compromising one billing vendor may give access to the sensitive data of numerous covered entities or clients. Horizon Healthcare RCM (“Horizon”) in Indiana is the latest RCM to disclose that…
The West Yorkshire Police provide today’s reminder of the insider threat and the need to terminate access and credentials before you terminate an employee’s employment: A disgruntled IT worker who launched a cyber attack on his employer after he was suspended from work has been jailed. Mohammed Umar Taj began to take revenge on his…