Gloria Knott reports: More than a thousand paper files containing patient information were left unsecured during a 2-week time frame at a storage suite on TMC HealthCare property in July, a news release from TMC HealthCare says. TMC HealthCare is the umbrella organization that includes Tucson Medical Center and other offices. This particular incident did…
Category: Breach Incidents
Lifting the lid off cybercrime: Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Digest
Clare Ward writes: Once again, Verizon has opened the doors on the reality of a data breach with the launch of the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Digest (DBD) series, enabling businesses to read undisclosed stories from the company’s cyber-investigative vault. The Data Breach Digest series puts cybercrime in context, outlining the (anonymized) specifics of data…
IE: More than 5,000 affected by Park by Phone data breach
Eoin English reports: More than 5,000 people have been affected by the data breach at Cork City’s Park by Phone service, it emerged last night. Cybersecurity experts are assisting with an investigation into the breach and steps have been taken to secure the service, which is provided to the city council under contract by ParkMagic….
Hundreds of private medical documents scattered on Albuquerque street
Brittany Bade reports: At first glance, it just looked like a lot of litter lining the street, but when concerned citizens stopped to look, they realized these discarded papers hold information no one would want out in the open. “I’m floored. I don’t even know yet how I feel,” said a patient named Renee. Renee…
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Investigates Breach That Occurred in March, 2018
Updated Sept. 5, 2018. Let’s start with BHCHP’s substitute notice: Boston, MA – In mid-March 2018, a lapse in security led to a possible breach of the Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program’s (BHCHP’s) clinic at St. Francis House (SFH) in Boston. A shelter guest trespassed into…
It was all going so well until….. it wasn’t.
So the server you use to share files with clients got infected with ransomware and you paid the attackers to get the decryption key and recover seems to be going pretty well – you’re able to decrypt the data without any impact on the services you provide to clients…. and then, three days later, you…