Dan Gray reports: Some residents of Sault Ste. Marie have been notified by Algoma Public Health that their personal information had been breached. In a copy of the letter obtained by Saultonline staff, APH admits to having a staff member inadvertently send a compromising e-mail “to another health care service provider.” The incident occurred June…
Category: Health Data
NY: Montefiore Medical Center discloses fourth insider-wrongdoing breach in seven months
Montefiore Medical Center in New York is notifying patients of yet another insider-wrongdoing breach. Read their press release below and then the comments after it. April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Montefiore Medical Center is notifying some patients about a security breach involving information illegally accessed by a former employee. Categories of personal information accessed varied…
Singapore public servant, another woman to be charged over COVID-19 data leak
Yahoo! reports: A female civil servant and another woman, both 36, will be charged on Wednesday (14 April) over alleged leaks of the daily updates of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Singapore prior to their official release, the police said on Tuesday (13 April). The public servant will be charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA)…
Swedish prosecutor says Russia’s GRU hacked Sweden’s sports body, WADA
Reuters reports: Swedish prosecutors said on Tuesday an investigation showed that Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency had carried out serious data secrecy breaches at Sweden’s sports confederation in 2017 and 2018 but it was nevertheless dropping the case. The Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement that repeated and comprehensive breaches had resulted in the…
The State Of Health Data For Vulnerable Populations, Why Cybercriminals Target Children, The Elderly, and the Dead
Jessica Sganga and Kenneth Wang of Knobbe Marten write: As of 2021, more than twice the number of data breaches are now being reported than 6 years ago and three times the number of data breaches that occurred in 2010.[1] While credit cards and social security numbers are perennial favorites, cybercrime has begun to favor the…
Lawsuit accuses Pennsylvania addiction treatment center of failing to protect patient information from data hack
In February, HHS added an incident to their public breach tool involving Pennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge, an addiction treatment center. In July, 2020, PPATC had discovered that an unauthorized individual had accessed some employee email accounts. A forensic investigation could not determine what information in those accounts had been accessed, and they wound up…