Title: False Statements and Concealment of Material Information by VA Information Technology Staff Report Number: 17-01980-201 Download Report Issue Date: 1/28/2021 City/State: VA Office: Office of Information and Technology (OIT) Report Author: Office of Special Review Report Type: Investigative Review Release Type: Unrestricted Summary: The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an administrative investigation…
Category: Health Data
GA: Crisp Regional Health Services falls victim to ransomware attack
Kim McCullough and Bobby Poitevint report: Crisp Regional Health Services was recently the victim of a ransomware attack, which affected some of the systems and encrypted files, according to a release from the hospital. “Workflow was never compromised, patient care was never compromised,” said Brooke Marshall, the community relations and foundation director. Officials said they…
Florida Healthy Kids website breached; vendor blamed for not patching
What’s that feeling when you learn your web hosting vendor for the past 7 years had unpatched vulnerabilities that permitted thousands of individuals’ personal information to be accessed without authorization? Nausea? Disgust? Something else? Florida Healthy Kids Corporation posted a notice on their site about an incident that they attribute to Jelly Bean Communications Design. …
Ca: Pharmacist Fined for Breaching Health Information
Looks like I missed this announcement from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta on January 19: An Edmonton-based pharmacist received a $5,000 fine, plus a $1,000 victim fine surcharge, on Friday, Jan. 15 for using health information in contravention of the Health Information Act (HIA). Stanislaus Soosai accessed and used the health information…
Dutch COVID-19 patient data sold on the criminal underground
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministry’s COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground. The arrests came after an investigation by RTL Nieuws reporter Daniel Verlaan who discovered ads for Dutch citizen data online, advertised on instant messaging apps like Telegram, Snapchat, and Wickr. Read more…
CN: Leaks of personal information from epidemiological survey cast shadow over anti-epidemic work
Xu Keyue reports: The leak of personal information of people who took part in epidemiological surveys has sparked public concern about the privacy of COVID-19 patients, and cast a shadow over the safety and reliability of the surveys, which could negatively affect China’s epidemic prevention and control work. […] The Paper reported that hospital staff,…