Texas Centers for Infectious Disease Associates (TCIDA) has now issued a press release and sent notification letters to patients affected by an attack they first discovered last July. According to their notice, on July 19, 2024, they learned of unusual activity in their network. Their investigation determined that an unauthorized individual may have accessed or…
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Battlefords Union Hospitals notifies patients of employee snooping in their records
Today’s reminder of the insider threat comes to us from Battlefords Union Hospitals in Canada. Battlefords Now reports that between October 1, 2024 and April 4, 2025, an operating room scheduler accessed the MedAccess EHR system to look at personal and primary care medical information for hundreds of patients without a legitimate purpose. That same…
Alert: Scattered Spider has added North American airline and transportation organizations to their target list
Charles Carmakal posted the following alert on LinkedIn: ALERT: Scattered Spider has added North American airline and transportation organizations to their target list. đ¨ Mandiant (part of Google Cloud) is aware of multiple incidents in the airline and transportation sector which resemble the operations of UNC3944 or Scattered Spider. We recommend that the industry immediately…
Northern Light Health patients affected by security incident at Compumedics; 10 healthcare entities affected
Leela Stockley reports that a data security incident at a Northern Light Health vendor may have compromised some patients’ information. The vendor, Compumedics, provides sleep disorder diagnostic services for health system patients seen at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, Northern Light AR Gould, and Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital. No report has appeared yet…
Privacy commissioner reviewing reported Ontario Health atHome data breach
CBC reports: Both Ontario’s privacy commissioner and Ontario Health are investigating a reported data breach affecting Ontario Health atHome, the province’s home-care coordination service. The incident may have exposed personal health information for at least 200,000 home-care patients, the Ontario Liberals alleged in a news release Friday morning. The breach occurred on or around March 17 of this year but…
CMS warns Medicare providers of fraud scheme
Naomi Diaz reports: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is warning healthcare providers and suppliers about a new fraud scheme involving fake faxed requests for medical records. According to a June 26 alert posted on CMSâ website, scammers are impersonating CMS and sending phishing faxes that falsely claim to be part of a Medicare audit. The…