Brandi Vincent reports: A Democratic lawmaker wants answers and actions taken to address unsecured servers at three military medical facilities that he said are putting service members’ personal information at risk. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., penned a letter to the Defense Health Agency Thursday pressing it to eliminate the exposure of sensitive medical data belonging to military…
Category: Health Data
Nebraska hospital 80% recovered after November ransomware attack
Mackenzie Garrity reports: North Platte, Neb.-based Great Plains Health is nearly recovered following a ransomware attack in November 2019 that encrypted the hospital’s computers, according to local NBC affiliate KNOP. Hospital officials say they are 80 percent finished with the recovery processes. Only thing left to recover is archived information, which hospital officials say is rarely used. Read…
UK: Community order for hacker who stole over 10,000 files from Royal Stoke Hospital
Sometimes even when you try to give people a break or a second chance, they just double down on the problematic behavior…. From the Crown Prosecution Service: A former Royal Stoke Hospital employee, who used malicious software to crack the passwords of his co-workers and access over 10,000 confidential hospital files, has been given a…
AZ: Cardiovascular Associates of Arizona reports office burglary
Cardiovascular Associates of Arizona has published a notice in the Arizona Silver Bullet. Dear Editor: We would like to inform our patients that somewhere over the weekend of 10/07-10/09 our office in Globe was broken into. Four laptops were stolen; each laptop was guarded with a PIN code and password to get on the computer….
IE: Hospital staff to be investigated over alleged ‘derogatory’ online posts
Paul Cullen reports: University Hospital Limerick says it plans to investigate staff over the alleged leaking of confidential patient information as well as “derogatory” Facebook posts. Staff have been told they may face disciplinary action for remarks on social media “made in the name of the HSE” which are offensive or derogatory. Read more on Irish Times.
SG: Public healthcare cluster NHG fined $6,000 for not securing personal data
Hariz Baharudin reports: Public healthcare cluster National Healthcare Group (NHG) has been fined $6,000 for failing to secure personal data – a year after another healthcare cluster, SingHealth, received a record fine after a breach in its database. Five other companies, including Safra and Creative Technology, have also been sanctioned over the past two months by…