Brandywine Counseling and Community Services, Inc. disclosed a breach. Note that this is not the Brandywine Urology breach recently disclosed but a different entity and a different breach. DataBreaches.net has reached out to Brandywine Counseling to ask for clarification on certain details, but has not received any response by publication time. This incident is not…
Category: U.S.
Hackers may have accessed personal information of Aurora Medical Center Bay Area patients
Jake Prinsen reports: Hackers may have stolen personal information from patients at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area. Someone used an email phishing scam around January 1 to gain access to email accounts of several of the Marinette hospital’s employees, according to Advocate Health Aurora. Read more on Green Bay Press Gazette.
Ransomware attack temporarily knocks out Olean city systems
Bob Clark reports: Another virus has crippled city operations — this one of the digital kind. On Friday morning, city officials announced that the management information department detected and stopped a computer virus attack on the city’s computers before the opening of business. “All I can tell you is it was ransomware discovered early in…
Oakland County stops COVID-19 data leak
Orion Sang reports: Oakland County secured a data leakage of internal COVID-19 data that was used by the Oakland County Health Division for public health analysis. The leakage originated on Tuesday night and was stopped Wednesday morning. […] The data that was leaked was “of a non-public map that was unintentionally marked as public during…
3 arrested after authorities raid Coalinga home filled with patient records, opioids stolen from doctor’s office
John Parmer and Paul Schlesinger report: Officers and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested three people Wednesday after raiding a Coalinga home that contained hundreds of patient records and prescription opioids stolen from an area doctor’s office, according to the Coalinga Police Department. […] While they were processing and booking evidence at the Police Department,…
PA: Meadville Medical Center still not fully recovered from malware attack in March
On January 30, the Meadville Tribune reported that Meadville Medical Center was investigating what appeared to be an attack on the employee payroll system. No patient data was believed to have been impacted. On March 26, however, and only days after furloughing hundreds of employees due to the decreased volume of patients coming to the…