Micah Lee reports: A network of health care providers pocketed millions of dollars selling hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and online consultations, according to hacked data provided to The Intercept. The data show that vast sums of money are being extracted from people concerned about or suffering from Covid-19 but resistant to vaccinations or other recommendations of public…
Category: Health Data
Portpass app may have exposed hundreds of thousands of users’ personal data
CBC reports: Private proof-of-vaccination app Portpass exposed personal information, including the driver’s licences, of what could be as many as hundreds of thousands of users by leaving its website unsecured. On Monday evening, CBC News received a tip that the user profiles on the app’s website could be accessed by members of the public. CBC…
Mx: El Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen) hit by cyberattack
The same group of threat actors who recently hit the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), are now claiming to have hit a Mexican government health agency that is involved in COVID testing or research: El Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen). Limited data has been publicly dumped so far, but it appears to include…
MD: Groove threat actors claim to have hit Robinwood Orthopaedic
Robinwood Orthopaedic Specialty Center in Maryland is a division of the Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics. They have three locations in Frederick and Hagerstown. On some date as yet unknown to DataBreaches.net, they were allegedly hit by a cyberattack. Their name and screencaps of purported files were added to Groove’s leaks site on September 13. Robinwood…
Safeway reports theft of COVID-19 vaccine records in Washington, D.C.
Russell Redman 1 reported the following on September 21: COVID-19 vaccine records were stolen from an off-site vaccination clinic held by Safeway in Washington, D.C. Parent company Albertsons Cos. said Tuesday that, on Sept. 8, an employee who facilitated Safeway’s COVID vaccine clinic at the Fort Stanton Recreation Center at 1812 Erie St. SE in…
Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio notifies clients after employee email account compromsed
As I commented this week: protected health information or medical information can be found in so many breaches involving entities that may not sound “medical” to you. Today, this site is posting two such notifications. Here’s the first. BLUE ASH, OHIO, September 24, 2021 – On July 27, 2021, Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio (COA) experienced…