The Office of Inadequate Security
Although DataBreaches does not report on all incidents involving U.S. healthcare entities, a log is kept to calculate statistics for the annual Breach Barometer report produced by Protenus, Inc. For the month of July, DataBreaches noted the following six U.S. hospitals disclosed breaches or were claimed as victims by threat actors. Some of these incidents…
VpnMentor reports that researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered 13 non-password-protected databases that contained 4.6 million documents, including voter records, ballots, multiple lists, and election-related records. Through his research, Fowler found that the data was owned by Platinum Technology Resource/Platinum Elections Services. Once I was reasonably sure who managed the database, I sent a responsible disclosure notice…
Over on Bleeping Computer, Lawrence Abrams reports that Cencora confirmed that protected health information was involved in the February cyberattack in its recent SEC filing, As DataBreaches previously reported, a number of Cencora—-Lash Group’s clients disclosed that personal and protected health information (PHI) was involved when they sent out notifications to their patients in May…
From OneBlood: OneBlood, the not-for-profit blood center serving much of the southeastern United States is experiencing a ransomware event that is impacting its software system. OneBlood is working closely with cyber security specialists, and also federal, state and local agencies as part of their comprehensive response to the situation. “OneBlood takes the security of our…
On July 29, the Department of Justice filed its opening brief in its appeal of Conor Fitzpatrick’s (“Pompompurin’s”) sentence. The issue at the appellate level is “whether the district court abused its discretion in sentencing Fitzpatrick to a 17-day time-served sentence for possessing child pornography and creating and operating the largest English-language data breach forum…
Daniel Payne, Ben Leonard, and Chelsea Cirruzzo report: THE LIABILITY QUESTION — State lawmakers, concerned by what they consider to be overreaching class-action lawsuits against health care organizations over data breaches, are moving to curb liability for them, Ben reports. Tennessee is the latest in a string of states to move to reduce liability for organizations that adopt…