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Mumbai: Ransomware hits Dadar CA’s office, demands payment in bitcoins for decryption

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Dissent

Mohamed Thaver reports: A day after a Navi Mumbai hospital and hotel became targets of a ransomware attack, cyber fraudsters encrypted data belonging to a Dadar-based chartered accountant and demanded money to remove the block on the data on Monday. While the incident took place on Monday, the complainant, realised that his data has been blocked…

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Confluence Health discloses patient data breach after employee email account hacked

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Dissent

Jefferson Robbins reports: Confidential patient information may have been released in an email breach at Confluence Health, the Wenatchee medical organization said in a Saturday press statement. The information contained in an employee’s breached email account may have included “some patient information” including name and treatment, the press release said, but no financial information was…

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BUSTED? A blackhat’s revenge exposes a 2-year old patient data hack that Holland Eye Surgery & Laser Center failed to disclose

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Dissent

A blackhat hacker known as “Lifelock” had claimed Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center knew about his hack two years ago but failed to disclose it to patients or HHS.  A follow-up investigation by DataBreaches.net uncovered evidence supporting his claim. The evidence has been turned over to federal regulators.  On June 2, DataBreaches.net reported that…

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Patient data found in Helsinki street

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Dissent

YLE reports: Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reports that a trove of patient data including names and personal ID numbers has been found in the Pasila district of Helsinki. The data is from patient records from a contraception clinic from the 1980s and 1990s. An IS reader spotted the papers and found six documents on Asemapäällikönkatu, before…

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SC: Roper Hospital patient records in courier’s stolen car

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

Rebecca Collett reports that a courier for Roper Hospital had a suitcase with patient records stolen on July 3 while she was paying for gas: The medical records were in a locked suitcase in the car, according to Andy Lyons, the Director of Corporate Communications for the hospital system.   The records belong to 133 patients…

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MO: Blue Springs Family Care notifies 44,979 patients after ransomware attack

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dissent

I read an article recently that cited a study by Cryptonite claiming that according to HHS’s breach tool, it appears that ransomware attacks are down in the healthcare sector this year.  My mental response was just to shrug because I’ve already declared time of death on using HHS’s breach tool as any kind of serious…

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