Alexa Lardieri reports: A cyberattack on a major American hospital system has caused dangerous medication mix ups including patients administered narcotics by mistake, leading to an admission to intensive care for life-threatening breathing difficulties. In another case, a female patient suffered a cardiac arrest and died after data mishaps delayed test results that would determine her…
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Hacker Leaks Data of 33,000 Accenture Employees in Third-Party Breach (1)
Update: Accenture has questioned the truthfulness of the claims. See their statement below the original post. Waqas writes: A hacker is claiming to have extracted contact details of 33,000 current and former employees of the IT giant Accenture in a breach that involves a third-party firm. A hacker known as “888” has recently leaked a…
Doctor charged for unauthorized access to personal information of pediatric patients at Texas Children’s Hospital
Is the following case an example of insider threat or it is a whistleblower situation — or both? The U.S. Attorney’s Office of Southern Texas issued the following press release on June 17: A Houston doctor has been indicted for obtaining protected individual health information for patients that were not under his care and without…
Association of Texas Professional Educators notifying 414,515 members of data breach (1)
The Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE) is notifying more than 414,000 members of a data breach. In a letter to those affected, ATPE explains that they first detected abnormal activity in their network on February 12, 2024. By the conclusion of the forensic investigation on March 20, 2024, investigators had found evidence that some…
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Hunter Biden Drops Data Hacking Suit Against Rudy Giuliani
Quinn Wilson reports: Hunter Biden and Rudy Giuliani told a federal court on Friday that Biden was ending his data hacking suit after the parties reached a joint agreement, ending claims by the president’s son that the former New York mayor illegally hacked and manipulated data from his laptop. The parties agreed to dismiss the suit without…