From Children’s Hospital Colorado: At Children’s Colorado, protecting the security and confidentiality of patient personal and medical information is of the utmost importance. Regrettably, this notice concerns an unintentional exposure of protected health information that may affect nearly 3,400 patient families. On July 11, 2017, Children’s Colorado learned that a team member’s email account may…
Category: Breach Incidents
Roman Seleznev pleads guilty to federal charges in Georgia and Nevada
ATLANTA – Roman Seleznev has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud for his role in the 2008 hack of RBS Worldpay. Seleznev was responsible for cashing out $2,178,349 associated with five hacked debit card numbers. “The defendant and a sophisticated team of hackers stole over $2,000,000 from ATMs across the globe,” said U.S….
Hacked Equifax data up for sale?
And so it begins. By this morning, there was already one potential class-action lawsuit against Equifax that had been announced, and at least two ads offering what is alleged to be hacked Equifax data for sale. Indeed, things haven’t been going exactly swimmingly for Equifax since it announced its mega-breach that may impact up to…
Another victim of TheDarkOverlord comes forward
On September 1, I reported that a breach disclosure by Hand Rehabilitation Specialists to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office was actually an incident that had involved TheDarkOverlord, a hacker or hacking collective who have been targeting the healthcare sector since last March or April. That notification did not name TheDarkOverlord as attackers. Nor did it…
Community Memorial Health System in Ventura suffers data security breach
Robert Shutt reports: The Community Memorial Health System in Ventura has sent out a notice regarding a data security breach involving patient information. A CMHS employee’s email account was compromised by a phishing email and on June 23 the employee saw irregularities in their account and notified the CMHA administration. Read more on Pacific Coast Business…
FL: Billing employee in healthcare office sentenced for ID theft role
There’s an update to an insider breach case previously reported on this site. Sharmekia Young, the former Rotech Healthcare employee convicted of stealing almost 1,000 patients’ information, has been sentenced to three years in prison.