Seen on Stockhouse: HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., June 12, /PRNewswire/ — Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. announced today it is notifying individuals of a ransomware incident that affected some of its servers that contained certain patient information. On April 11, 2020, Electronic Waveform Lab became aware of the ransomware incident affecting its computer servers. Upon learning of the incident,…
Category: Health Data
More than just health concern at coronavirus test sites: Are you exposing your personal information to security risks?
I fear that numbers on privacy breaches and data breaches stemming from COVID19 or involving COVID19 data are going to be staggering this year. Karina Elwood and Cindy Krischer Goodman report: When Elizabeth Spinelli arrived at Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Park for a coronavirus test, a nurse handed her a form to write her name, address,…
Law-enforcement investigating possible leak of data of Armenia’s coronavirus patients
Siranush Ghazanchyan of Public Radio of Armenia reports that Armenian law enforcement is investigating reports on leaked data of coronavirus patients and their contacts. Information security and media expert Samvel Martirosyan said earlier that Azerbaijani hackers had published data of about 3,500 Armenian citizens (people infected with Covid-19 and their contacts). Like many countries, Armenia…
12,000+ Indian blood donors’ PII and passwords leaked
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…
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…