Julie Spitzer reports: Though 20 percent of RNs claim their facilities experienced a data breach, only a quarter of them have seen changes in the way their companies handle data security and patient privacy over the past year, according to a survey administered by the University of Phoenix College of Health Professions. The survey queried responses…
Category: Breach Incidents
Claiming to have hacked Facebook, AnonCoders dump 37,000 logins
Update of January 18: After four requests, this site finally received a response from Facebook. According to a spokesperson: We were able to look into this and based on our review, there is no evidence that these credentials were exposed as a result of a Facebook breach, and we found that very few entries match…
DJO Global Notifies St. Rose Dominican Patients of Potential Breach of Personal Information
January 5, 2018 – DJO Global, Inc., a global provider of medical device solutions for musculoskeletal health, vascular health and pain management, announced today that on September 25, 2017 DJO discovered an incident involving the potential disclosure of certain personal information of individuals who received a DJO Global product from the Siena, San Martin or De…
UK: Record fines for company, senior staff and private investigators involved in illegal trade in personal information
A firm of loss adjusters has been fined £50,000 for unlawfully disclosing personal data which had been obtained illegally by senior employees and rogue private investigators. A director and a senior member of staff at Kent-based Woodgate and Clark Ltd have also been sentenced to record financial penalties, along with the private investigators involved. The…
Creditseva hacked, personal and sensitive data accessed
Creditseva has been in the headlines before for the wrong reasons after security researcher Chris Vickery discovered that they had failed to secure a s3 instance which left tens of thousands personal details exposed. Moving on months later and it has come to my attention that Creditseva has now come under attack by various hackers,…
Penn Medicine computer with patient info stolen
Mari A. Schaefer reports: About 1,000 patients at Penn Medicine are receiving letters saying a computer with some of their personal information on it was stolen. A laptop containing patient files was reported stolen from a car at the King of Prussia Mall parking lot on Nov. 30, according to a spokesperson at the University of Pennsylvania Health…