Details have been disclosed about a breach I noted yesterday. According to NBC in Miami: A baby born at Jackson South Community Hospital was at the center of an internal investigation into a breach of patient privacy and hospital policy – and two hospital administrators no longer work there as a result, sources said. According to sources, the…
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Miami Family Medical Centre able to access/recover ransomed patient records; didn't pay ransom (UPDATED)
Danny Garcia reports on some good news for Miami Family Medical Centre in Australia. As I previously noted, their patient records had been encrypted by an overseas hacker who was demanding ransom to give them the encryption key: Garcia reports that Essential IT Services, a Gold Coast based reseller, was able to get them back into…
Jackson South Community Hospital managers resign in wake of privacy breach
Hmmm. I don’t remember reading about this breach. John Dorschner reports: Jackson Health System announced Tuesday that two managers have resigned under pressure because of an alleged breach of patient privacy in the obstetrics unit in October at Jackson South Community Hospital. Jackson spokesman Edwin O’Dell said that South’s chief nursing officer and the head…
Now-former student arrested in the University of Nebraska hack
Leslie Reed reports an arrest in a hacking incident that affected the University of Nebraska and state college system; A former computer science and math major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln now faces a federal computer hacking charge from last spring’s breach of a key computer system serving both NU and the state college system….
State of California mistakenly posted 14,000 Social Security numbers on the Internet
KCRA has the media exclusive on a web exposure breach affecting 14,000 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers: The list includes Medi-Cal providers in 25 California counties, including Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Nevada, Placer, Sutter, Tuolumne and Yuba. In an exclusive interview with KCRA 3, state officials from the Department of Health Care Services admitted to posting…
Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic
And yet again: A resident contacted Target 11 saying he had discovered boxes of documents from a non-profit development agency in the West End of Pittsburgh. He said the documents, including names and Social Security numbers, were sitting right out in the open next to a dumpster on a public sidewalk. “They contained people’s Social Security numbers, row…