Megan Gleason reports: Lovelace patients can once again schedule their appointments and refill their prescriptions online. The Lovelace Health System restored access to its patient portal, MyChart, on Thursday. The system was down following a cyberattack on Ardent Health Services, Lovelace’s parent company, detected on Thanksgiving. The inaccessible patient portal caused difficulties for some people in rescheduling…
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Statement of the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility Regarding November 2023 Data Security Incident
On November 2, 2023, we discovered that a virus had impacted the Facility’s computer systems. We quickly took steps to minimize its impact, took other necessary actions to protect the Facility’s systems, and have been investigating the matter. We have been working with a forensic security consultant to identify the nature and scope of the…
Online platform Carousell violated Hong Kong privacy laws, watchdog finds, after data of over 320,000 locals leaked
Harvey Kong reports: Popular online marketplace Carousell violated Hong Kong’s privacy laws, a watchdog said on Thursday, following the discovery of the personal data of more than 320,000 local users available for sale on the dark web. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data announced the findings from its investigation into the leak,…
Patient records lost, equipment damaged at several urban primary health centers by cyclone
Every so often, a natural disaster reminds us of other ways records are lost and why entities should have offsite backups that are regularly updated. Ishvarya Lakshmi reports: Patient records, medical instruments, drugs, syringes, needles and sanitary pads in several urban primary health centres (UPHC) were swept away during the recent cyclone. Officials at the…
Google discovers another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Google Chrome has released an emergency security fix for a zero-day flaw that has been exploited in the wild. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7024, affects the desktop versions of the browser on Mac, Linux and Windows. It is the eighth actively exploited zero-day in Chrome discovered since the start of 2023. Clément…
College of the Canyons alerts employees to third-party ransomware attack
Tyler Wainfeld reports: College of the Canyons is communicating with more than 2,400 affected personnel after an unauthorized data breach through its insurance provider, according to Eric Harnish, a spokesman for the college. Keenan & Associates, a Torrance-based consulting and brokerage firm which has the Santa Clarita Community College District as one of its clients,…