A number of medical records – which are still kept in paper form in Jersey – went missing in the hospital in August, the Health Minster has confirmed. Read more on Jersey Evening Post. It’s not clear to me how being short-staffed led to missing records. Did existing staff just fail to return records after…
Category: Health Data
JDC Healthcare discloses ransomware incident; still figuring out who needs to be notified
DALLAS, Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — JDC Healthcare Management LLC (“JDC”) is notifying individuals of an event that may affect the security of some personal information. While, to date, JDC has no evidence that information has been or will be misused, JDC is providing information about the event, JDC’s response to it, and resources available to help…
Next Level Apparel Notice of Security Incident
Today’s reminder that you’ll find medical/health info everywhere… GARDENA, Calif., Oct. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Next Level Apparel (“NLA”) announced today a phishing email incident that involved a small number of email accounts in its computer environment. The phishing email incident resulted in unauthorized access to information contained in some email accounts, including names accompanied by Social…
IL: OSF Healthcare discloses ransomware incident
In May, 2021, DataBreaches.net sent an email inquiry to OSF Healthcare in Illinois after seeing that threat actors known as Xing Team claimed to have attacked them and exfiltrated data. OSF Healthcare never responded to the inquiry. In June, after Xing Team started dumping what appeared to be patient data, DataBreaches.net sent OSF Healthcare a…
Today’s reminder that small breaches may have the biggest impact
While everyone understandably raises alarms about the possible impact of a ransomware attack, let us never forget that simple, stupid, careless, willful, or just human errors can create significant safety risks for people. A foster family in Missouri is raising concerns about what may be two separate breaches that pose safety risks to them and…
It seemed that in the blink of an eye, an Indiana health system was crippled by ransomware
Leeann Doerflein reports: Johnson Memorial Health’s information technology team and the FBI are trying to get to the bottom of a weekend cyber attack that crippled the hospital’s computer network. The hackers gained access to the hospital’s network at 10:31 p.m. Friday and installed ransomware by 10:33 p.m. The hospital’s IT team discovered the attack…