CloudSEK reports: CloudSEK has discovered a data leak that contains sensitive information of 12,472 blood donors registered on http://www.indianblooddonors.com/index.php. Indian Blood Donors is an organization that maintains a free database of blood donors. They also have an app, which matches recipients with the nearest donor, based on blood type. Discovery of the leak A CloudSEK researcher discovered…
Category: Health Data
Lawsuit Filed Against Accounting Firm in Ransomware Attack That Impacted Patient Data
More coverage of a lawsuit against BST, a CPA firm that is a business associate of Community Care Physicians. BST had been attacked by Maze ransomware, and when they did not pay the demanded ransom, the ransomware operators started dumping some of the data to increase pressure on them. Now patients of Community Care Physicians…
University of Missouri Health Care discloses 2019 breach
University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care) has today disclosed a breach that occurred in September 2019. According to a notification on their site, on September 21, 2019, they became aware that the email accounts of some students who had been seen by their health care system had been accessed without authorization. Those email…
eHealth ransomware attack potentially catastrophic for Saskatchewan health card holders
Now, five months later, eHealth admits it still doesn’t know exactly what information was taken, who took it, where it went or what it’s being used for. And that is a recipe for disaster. CBC News reports: The bad guys slipped the virus into the eHealth Saskatchewan computer system on Dec. 20. For the next…
BST sued by Community Care customers over Maze ransomware attack
Larry Rulison reports: Lawyers for patients of Community Care Physicians that were victimized by a cyber ransomware attack last December are suing the accounting firm that the medical practice hired to protect its customer data, some of which was published online. The class-action lawsuit was filed in state Supreme Court in Albany last month against …
Researcher claims Pakistan Government’s #Covid19 tracing app leaks user’s private data
French security researcher Baptiste Robert continues to educate the public about security concerns with COVID19 tracking and tracing apps. Based on his analysis that he tweeted, TheDigitalHacker has been reported that the app made by developers of the Pakistan government to track #covid19 uses a 3rd-grade security system that can leak personal data like passwords,…