Reuters reports: A former US Army major and his anesthesiologist wife have been criminally charged for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about military patients to Russia, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday. Jamie Lee Henry, the former major who was also a doctor at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and his wife,…
Category: Health Data
Health worker photographed patient credit cards and went shopping with them, cops say
Brendan Rascius reports: A Maryland woman accused of using stolen credit and debit card information — then using it to shop online — has been charged with 120 counts of theft and fraud, police said in a news release. The woman was employed at a Walgreens in Cambridge, Maryland, a riverside city of about 13,000…
Updates on three class action lawsuits involving patient data
Magellan Health Magellan Health agreed to pay $1.43 million to resolve data breach claims stemming from a 2019 phishing attack that exposed data for thousands of patients. The settlement benefits individuals who received a notification that their personal identifying information or personal health information may have been compromised in the 2019 Magellan Health data breach….
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Cl: Guacamaya Group leaks emails from Joint Chiefs of Staff El Estado Mayor Conjunto De Chile (EMCO), the advisory body of the Chilean Ministry of Defense, was the victim of a data leak. Thousands of emails were leaked online by the hacktivist group, Guacamaya in “Operation Repressive Forces. About 10TB of emails from military and…
Wolfe Clinic notifies patients of Eye Care Leaders breach
I tweeted this yesterday, but probably should note it here too: When I saw Wolfe Clinic had reported a breach to HHS impacting 542,776 patients, I thought they had just updated their 500k figure from the ransomware attack by Lorenz last year. But it turned out that this was a new, and unrelated report due…
Update: SERV Behavioral Health System Issues Notice of Breach
On August 6, DataBreaches reported that the Hive ransomware team claimed to have attacked SERV Behavioral Health System and encrypted SERV’s files on May 26. The listing was added to Hive’s site on July 14. SERV did not respond to email inquiries from DataBreaches in July. Time passed, but Hive never added any “proof pack”…