Mariam Issimdar and Nikki Fox report: A hospital trust has apologized after private information on more than 22,000 patients was released in two breaches. The leaks – in 2020 and 2021 – concerned maternity and cancer patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Roland Sinker, chief executive of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said the breaches…
Author: Dissent
Millions of patient scans and health records spilling online thanks to decades-old protocol bug
Carly Page reports: Thousands of exposed servers are spilling the medical records and personal health information of millions of patients due to security weaknesses in a decades-old industry standard designed for storing and sharing medical images, researchers have warned. This standard, known as Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, or DICOM for short, is the internationally…
Cybersecurity: Federal Agencies Made Progress, but Need to Fully Implement Incident Response Requirements (GAO Report)
GAO-24-105658 Published: Dec 04, 2023. Publicly Released: Dec 04, 2023. Fast Facts Federal agencies have made progress in preparing for and responding to cyber threats. For instance, agencies have improved their ability to detect, analyze, and handle incidents like ransomware attacks and data breaches. However, some agencies have not met the federal requirements for event…
Hackers Exploited ColdFusion Vulnerability to Breach Federal Agency Servers
The Hacker News reports: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of active exploitation of a high-severity Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability by unidentified threat actors to gain initial access to government servers. “The vulnerability in ColdFusion (CVE-2023-26360) presents as an improper access control issue and exploitation of this CVE can result in arbitrary code execution,” CISA said,…
CBIZ KA Notice of Data Privacy Incident (Prime Healthcare)
CBIZ KA, a third-party vendor for Prime Healthcare (Prime), discovered a security incident involving CBIZ’s use of MOVEit Transfer software, which has recently reported a security vulnerability. Prime takes the responsibility of safeguarding your information very seriously, and while Prime systems were not involved in the incident, CBIZ KA uses MOVEit Transfer to securely transfer…
Seeking clarification on Maine’s data breach notification statute
If you can’t get an interpretation of a state breach notification statute from the state’s attorney general, where can you get it? DataBreaches recently wrote to the Maine Attorney General’s Office: I am not sure I really understand a provision in Chapter 210-B §1348. Security breach notice requirements, and am seeking clarification. In Paragraph 1,…