I do not recall ever seeing Horizon House in Philadelphia listed on any dedicated leak site used by ransomware groups, but according to a press release issued last week, Horizon House experienced a ransomware attack in March 2 and March 5 of this year that encrypted their files and allowed the unknown threat actor to…
Category: Health Data
MN: Mankato Clinic notifies patients of health data breach
Mitch Keegan reports: The Mankato Clinic has notified more than 500 patients of a breach of unsecured protected health information. In a news release, Mankato Clinic says on August 3rd an electronic spreadsheet containing patient information for 535 patients was mistakenly e-mailed to a colleague of a Mankato Clinic employee to an external e-mail account. The e-mail…
Tempe nurse assistant stole patient identities to open bank accounts, lease apartments, police say
12News reports: A Tempe nurse assistant is accused of stealing the identities of her patients to lease apartments and purchase expensive vehicles. Sierra Johnson, 24, is facing several criminal charges after investigators connected her to several cases of fraud and identity theft throughout the Valley. Johnson worked at various rehabilitation facilities in Mesa, Goodyear, Phoenix,…
Simon Eye notifies more than 144,000 patients after hacker accessed employee email accounts
Simon Eye Management (“Simon Eye”) recently became aware of suspicious activity related to certain employee email accounts. With the assistance of third-party computer forensic specialists, we took immediate steps to contain the incident and to investigate the nature and scope of the incident. Simon Eye is issuing this notice to provide additional details regarding what…
Cyberattack on Alaska DHSS website includes HIPAA and APIPA breach
Update of October 5, 2021: On September 22, Alaska DHSS reported this incident to HHS as a health plan, and indicated that they were notifying 500,000 individuals (even though there was no evidence of data exfiltration). As of today, some of the state’s divisions are still not fully restored on the web. The Alaska Department…
Hackers stole Covid test data of 1.4 million people from Paris hospital system
Sarah Elzas reports: Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took Covid-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020. The hack of a service of the Paris public hospital system, AP-HP, is the latest in a growing number of cyberattacks on French health institutions and Covid data breaches….