There’s an update on a lawsuit previously noted on this site. John Riley reports: The Superior Court of California has rejected a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit on behalf of 93 HIV-positive people, who had their personal information compromised by a data breach of the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program online enrollment system….
Category: Health Data
Fugitive from Kentucky charged with breaching computer network at Community Health
Jesse Wells reports: A fugitive from Kentucky is accused of illegally logging into the computer network at Community North Hospital. The suspect, Charles Thomas, is now facing several charges of computer trespass and resisting law enforcement. Court records claim he logged into the computer network using stolen credentials from a hospital employee. Read more on…
Notice of Security Breach: Tillamook Chiropractic Clinic
On August 3rd, 2018, during an internal security audit, it was discovered that a major computer network breach had occurred at the offices of Tillamook Chiropractic Clinic. On May 24, 2016, malware was installed on the primary insurance billing system, which hackers then used as a staging area to collect patient records, including patient full…
Toyota notifies employees and health plan participants of data breach
September 28, 2018 Toyota Industries North America, Inc. (“TINA”), which is headquartered in Columbus, Ind. and provides administrative services to its affiliated North American entities, is notifying individuals of a data security incident. The incident could potentially impact the security of certain personal and protected health information regarding approximately 19,000 current/former employees and health plan…
Russian Hackers Indicted
Seven Russian government operatives have been charged with hacking into the computer networks of organizations working to investigate and stop Russian athletic doping, just after Russia was banned from the Olympics due to state-sponsored doping revelations. The hackers also allegedly targeted other international entities seen as thwarting Russia’s strategic interests. According to an indictment unsealed…
GA: Gwinnett Medical Center investigating possible data breach
Update: After posting the article below, this site was contacted by the Twitter user who was posting data on Twitter, @baidu3250617231 provided additional proof, including pictures allegedly taken from an Axis camera. Other details were also provided to Steve Ragan of Salted Hash. Steve Ragan of Salted Hash has a possible breach report involving Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC) that…