Barney Lerten reports the latest update on an insider-snooping case previously noted on this site: Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel filed criminal charges Tuesday against a Prineville woman for illegally accessing scores of electronic patient records in the St. Charles Health System. Dawnielle Vaca, 35, while employed as a certified nursing assistant at St….
Category: Health Data
Menlo Park dental practice notifies patients of hack and ransom demand
The following is one of the best notification letters I have ever read. I have sent an email to Dr. Yaley to ask a few questions for clarification and follow-up purposes, as some of this sounds like it could be the work of TheDarkOverlord. Regardless of who the attackers are, however, the notification letter below could…
AU: Health department contacts parents after confidential information goes missing
Port Pirie hospital is contacting 234 families after a laptop computer was stolen from the premises. The laptop, used as part of the State-wide Infant Screening Hearing Program, had a security password login and cannot be used as a personal device. But Regional Director Yorke and Northern Roger Kirchner said because hearing test data was…
FL: Notice from Baptist Medical Center South to EEG Patients Regarding a Missing Hard Drive
Baptist Medical Center South (“Baptist South”) is committed to protecting the security and con dentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On May 18, 2017, Baptist South learned that a backup hard drive used for EEG testing was missing from an EEG room. We immediately began…
TN: Ransomware hits one Tennessee city’s emergency services
AP reports: Two branches of a Tennessee city’s emergency services have been hit by ransomware as part of a worldwide malware attack that began in May. […] Norville says most of the affected data is not retrievable, and it is unclear if any significant files have been lost. Two file servers and 19 computers within…
While investigating one ransomware attack, Walnut Place hit with second attack
On May 12, I posted a press release from Walnut Place about a ransomware attack that had occurred in January. Their press release did not disclose that they had become aware of a second ransomware attack on May 6. A new press release, dated today, does: On March 13, 2017, Walnut Place leadership was informed…