Protenus has released its July Breach Barometer, with data supplied by DataBreaches.net. Here’s a snippet from their report: July is the first month in 2017 to have hacking incidents outweigh insider breaches to patient data in both frequency and number of affected patient records. While hacking accounted for almost half of total breach incidents this…
Category: Health Data
Why the Russian state ‘weaponised’ stolen medical records of famous footballers
Jason Murdock reports: On Tuesday 22 August, a hacking group released the alleged medical records of 25 football players who had been allowed to use banned medicines during the 2010 World Cup, part of an ongoing series of disclosures centred on stolen therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs). The group claimed that the information was hijacked from…
Tx: Institute for Women’s Health warns patients personal data compromised in network hack
Samantha Ehlinger reports: The Institute for Women’s Health warned patients that hackers may have stolen some of their personal information or credit or debit card data, the physicians’ group said Thursday. The San Antonio OBGYN practice said a so-called keylogger virus was installed on its network on June 5. The virus was discovered July 6…
Pacific Alliance Medical Center notifies 266,123 patients of ransomware incident
From their web site, the following breach notification. According to their report to HHS, 266,123 patients were notified. Notice of Data Breach At Pacific Alliance Medical Center (PAMC), we understand that the confidentiality and security of medical and personal information is critically important, and we are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this post…
UK: Anonymous hacker claims to have stolen the NHS medical records of 1.2million Brits
Shaun Wooler reports: A computer geek with alleged links to global hacking group Anonymous has stolen patient data from an NHS appointment booking system. The crook breached a private contractor’s security to access a database containing confidential records on up to 1.2million people. SwiftQueue is paid by eight NHS trusts to manage a website, through…
OSHA Suspends ITA Due to Security Breach
Tressi L. Cordaro of Jackson Lewis writes: On Monday we blogged about the availability of the new OSHA Injury Tracking Application (“ITA”) that serves as the web portal for the submission of injury and illness information (300 Logs, 301 Forms and 300A Forms) under OSHA’s “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” rule (aka Electronic Recordkeeping…