DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C., Sept. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dorchester County Government (“Dorchester“) announced today a phishing incident involving email accounts within its email environment. The phishing incident resulted in unauthorized access to certain information collected and maintained by the County for a variety of reasons, including names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s…
Category: Health Data
Th: Hacker steals 40,000 patients’ data from kidney hospital
It is the second hospital report in as many days. This one, however, is clearly a ransomware attack and unlike the first hospital attack, no one is making any attempt to minimize this one as the theft of patient data is impacting treatment. The Bangkok Post reports: The personal details of more than 40,000 patients…
Resource Anesthesiology Association of California warns patient information was on stolen laptop
KGET reports: Resource Anesthesiology Association of California, a local medical company, is warning that patients might have had their personal information compromised following a laptop theft. The Resource Anesthesiology Association of California says the laptop was stolen from an employee’s vehicle on July 8. A police report was filed but the company says the laptop…
Th: Hacked hospital patients’ data ‘not important’
Online reporters and Sunthorn Kongwarakom report: Officials have rushed to downplay the theft by a hacker of more than 10,000 patients’ personal details from Phetchabun Hospital, describing the information as “not important”. Phetchabun governor Krit Kongmuang was among those who responded to initial reports on social media that the data of 16 million patients of…
NC: Sandhills Center Provides Notice of Potential Data Theft
On July 30, 2021, DataBreaches.net reported on a claimed cyberattack against Sandhills Center in North Carolina. Data for sale had shown up on the “Marketo” site, and when DataBreaches.net looked at the “proof packs,” of data, they included psychological evaluations and other documents with personal and sensitive information. Much of the data was old, and…
Data breach at Coalinga State Hospital reveals private information on nearly 1,800 patients
KFSN reports: On Friday, the State Hospital Department announced a privacy breach at Coalinga State Hospital. Employees have improperly provided confidential information about approximately 1,800 patients now and in the past to the US District Court in the Eastern District of California, officials said. The breach occurred on July 21, 2013, October 12, 2016, and…