Ta’Niyah Jordan reports: Patient medical records are meant to be private. But one of Lansing’s largest hospitals is being accused of leaving behind boxes of confidential patient files in a decommissioned hospital. […] A whistleblower who attended the April 19th preview at the Pennsylvania campus says he found several boxes containing patient files. In images…
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Data breach could affect up to 100,000 patients at Queensway Carleton Hospital
Elizabeth Payne reports: Health and personal information, home addresses and OHIP numbers of up to 100,000 patients at Queensway Carleton Hospital have been affected by a major data breach involving an Ottawa-based third-party software provider. The hospital sent out public notices of the breach Friday and is contacting patients individually. It has also notified the…
TUSD’s Cyber Shutdown: District will need help, and millions of dollars, to rebound from ransomware attack
Updated August 24, 2023: TUSD announced that 29,000 people may have been affected by this incident. Valerie Cavazos reports: The Tucson Unified School District was hobbled by a ransomware attack in late January. 13 News’ Valerie Cavazos has been reporting on the attack from the beginning to find out how it happened, why it happened…
The cyber police exposed an attacker in the sale of databases with personal data of citizens of Ukraine and the EU
Machine translation of a press release by the Ukrainian cyber police: The illegal activities of a 36-year-old resident of Netishyn were exposed by the employees of the Cyber Police Department together with the employees of the Svyatoshyn district prosecutor’s office. The man was an administrator of closed groups and channels in the Telegram messenger, where…
Man Sentenced for Stealing Over 712 Bitcoin Subject to Forfeiture
An Ohio man was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for stealing over 712 bitcoin that were the proceeds of the darknet bitcoin mixer Helix and subject to forfeiture in a then-pending criminal case. According to court documents, Gary James Harmon, 31, of Cleveland, perpetrated a scheme to steal cryptocurrency that was…
Another UK school hit by ransomware attack
John Leonard reports: A school in Wiltshire was hit by a ransomware attack last weekend. Hardenhuish School, a mixed secondary academy in Chippenham, sent texts to parents and guardians of its 1,623 pupils notifying them of the attack. “As far as we can tell at this point, no personal data has been compromised, although our…