Jonathan Greig reports: More than 30,000 US healthcare workers’ personal information was recently exposed due to a non-password protected database, according to security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and a team of ethical hackers with Website Planet. Fowler discovered a database run by Gale Healthcare Solutions with 170,239 exposed records that included names, emails, home addresses, photos and in some…
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Tampa Bay Area Medical Biller Pleads Guilty To Healthcare Fraud, Aggravated Identity Theft, And Tax Offenses
The following is an update to a case previously noted on DataBreaches.net when the defendant was first indicted. Joshua Maywalt (40, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to four counts of healthcare fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of filing a false federal income tax return, and two counts of failing to file federal…
FBI says the Cuba ransomware gang made $43.9 million from ransom payments
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Federal Bureau of Investigations said today that the operators of the Cuba ransomware have earned at least $43.9 million from ransom payments following attacks carried out this year. In a flash alert sent out on Friday, the Bureau said the Cuba gang has “compromised at least 49 entities in five critical…
Z-CERT: “Small healthcare institutions are generally more vulnerable than large healthcare institutions, such as hospitals”
Interview with the director Wim Hafkamp and security specialist Jan Hanstede of Z-CERT by the DeCrisis manager Which type of healthcare institutions do you feel are the most vulnerable to such a threat? “Small healthcare facilities are generally more vulnerable than large healthcare facilities, such as hospitals. This is because they have less feeling for IT. They…
Suspected Chinese hackers breach more US defense and tech firms
Sean Lyngaas of CNN reports: A suspected Chinese hacking campaign has breached four more US defense and technology companies in the last month, and hundreds more US organizations are running the type of vulnerable software that the attackers have exploited, according to research shared with CNN. The apparent espionage activity, which the National Security Agency…
It: Hacker attack on the Ulss in the night, at risk of visits, interventions and urgent operations
Machine Translation of a report on an attack on an Italian health system: Ulss 6 Euganea under hacker attack. During the night, a cyber attack occurred which resulted in the blocking of most of the servers, compromising their usability. «We are working very quickly with all our IT technicians in order to restore the services as…