In May, 2017, this site started reporting that a number of healthcare facilities had been impacted by a breach at their vendor, Tuscaloosa-based FastHealth. FastHealth provides website and operational tools and services, including online bill payment. According to FastHealth’s news release at the time, an unauthorized third party had altered code on its web server,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Almost half a million breached health records in January; 60% from one hacking incident alone
Protenus has released its Breach Barometer for January health data breaches. While the number of insider and external incidents continue to run pretty much neck-to-neck, once again external breaches accounted for significantly more breached records than insider incidents. Protenus reports: Of note, hacking incidents affected significantly more patient records, due largely to one particular breach…
Another day and Another Bulk Breach Dump Totaling over 3.4 Billion Credentials.
Reshared, Recycled, Swapped and Sold breach data is being a common thing and well once again someone has complied a bunch of public and not so public combo lists from well known previous breaches that when combined have a total of 3,443,684,697 Emails with 2,914,838,915 of them being unique leaving only about 333K duplicate entries….
University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Association notifies alumni after unintentional exposure of SSN
Remember when universities used Social Security numbers as student IDs? Well, if you contact alumni, make sure you are no longer using their SSN as their IDs. The University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Association is notifying an unspecified number of their alumni after they discovered that using old student IDs was a current risk. From…
Teesside University urges hundreds of students and staff to reset passwords following security concern
Dave Robson reports: Students at Teesside University have been warned about a possible email security breach. Hundreds of students were contacted over the weekend and urged to reset their university password. But the university says it was purely a precautionary measure after it became aware of a “wider security concern completely unrelated to our data…
MUSC terminates employees who ‘snoop’ in patients’ medical records
Mary Katherine Wildeman and Lauren Sausser report: Thirteen employees were fired in 2017 from the Medical University of South Carolina after administrators determined they had broken federal law by using patient records without permission, spying on patient files or disclosing private information. Some of these privacy breaches involved high-profile patients. Read more on Charleston Post…