Brian Krebs reports: Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But new information confirms this pledge was always a lie, and that Conti has launched more than 200 attacks against hospitals and other…
Category: Health Data
Blue Earth County releases report on insider data breach that began in 2020
It seems like only yesterday that we were pointing to an insider-wrongdoing breach that involved people’s medical information. Oh right, it was. And here’s yet another one. Aaron Stuve reports: Blue Earth County has released information regarding a data breach from last year. The report said that an employee of the Human Services Department accessed…
Law firm says Deaconess doc viewed women’s personal, medical data without cause
John T. Martin reports on a disturbing case of insider-wrongdoing: A law firm says it has spoken with at least six women who received an apology letter in recent months from Deaconess Health System stating a physician accessed their medical records without purpose. The firm, Ladendorf Law of Indianapolis, may pursue claims on behalf of those women,…
Contra Costa County Employee Email Accounts Hacked In Data Breach
Be forewarned: the news story misspells”breach” as “breech.” I couldn’t bring myself to use their headline so fixed that, but am leaving this: Contra Costa County officials have begun sending out letters this week to potential victims of the “unauthorized access to certain county employee email accounts” in a computer breech between July to August…
Newman Regional Health notifies 52,224 patients after long-running breach of employee email accounts
Newman Regional Health (NRH) is notifying more than 52,000 patients after an investigation revealed unauthorized access to a limited number of their employee e-mail accounts between January 26, 2021 and November 23, 2021. NRH is not a large hospital. According to their site, the Kansas hospital is a not-for-profit 25-bed critical access hospital, owned by…
SuperCare Health Sued After Data Breach
The gap from the disclosure of a data breach to the filing of a potential class-action lawsuit is often a matter of weeks (or less), although a lot of lawsuits are dismissed for lack of Article III standing (see a 2021 review of data breach litigation here). In March, in-home respiratory care provider SuperCare…