Emma D’Agostino reports: MORE than two years have passed since Radius Disability Services went into administration. Yet, documents containing sensitive information about those who worked for and used the service remain at the former Havlin Street Site. Copies of a volunteer’s driver’s licence, bank statement, and birth certificate are among the papers strewn on the floor…
Category: Health Data
Possibility of data breach with mySalam health insurance scheme, Perkasa claims
Ida Nadirah Ibrahim reports: The government-run health insurance scheme for the bottom 40 per cent of workers raises the concern of data breach by Singaporean insurance company Great Eastern Takaful Berhad, Perkasa claimed today. Its information chief Nasrul Ali Hasan Abdul Latif said this is because the Finance Ministry has allowed Great Eastern Takaful to…
“Team Orangeworm” claims to be dumping CarePartners’ data from 2018 breach
In June, 2018, CarePartners, a home care service provider to Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and an Ontario-based community health care agency, revealed that they had been breached. The following month, after being contacted by the hackers, CBC News provided more details and reported that there was an extortion demand made by the hackers….
MN: Infertility clinic reports malware incident
Deanna Weniger reports: An infertility clinic in Woodbury announced Friday that it was the target of a malware attack in December that may have exposed the personal information of its clients. Reproductive Medicine and Infertility Associates said in a press release that the malware was discovered Dec. 5. The company hired computer forensics experts, who…
SC: Roper St. Francis notifying patients after employees fall for phishing attack
Roper St. Francis posted the following notice on their web site on January 29: Roper St. Francis Healthcare values the privacy and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding a recent incident that may have involved some of your information. On November 30, 2018, we learned that an unauthorized actor may have…
IN: Thousands Of Patients’ Information Compromised In Data Breach
Sierra Hignite reports: A data breach at Valley Professionals Health Care may have affected all seven of its health care locations, including their mobile site. Plus, personal information from thousands of patients has been compromised. It started when an employee received an email in late November that they believed to be from another health care organization…