Jimmy Lawton reports: Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center says “breaches of patient information were discovered” during a recent internal investigation, but employees who purposefully committed the acts have been terminated. CHMC spokeswoman Laura Shea said the hospital dealt with the breach immediately and took action required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which outlines…
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Uber settles with all 50 states and the District of Columbia over massive 2016 data breach. The price tag? $148 million.
Uber Technologies Inc. will be paying a steep fare for its 2016 data breach. Here’s the press release from the NYS Attorney General’s Office about the record penalty it will pay. All states and the District of Columbia are party to the settlement. Settlement with 50 States & DC Also Requires Uber to Adopt Model Data…
Ransomware Attacks Conway, Companies out Thousands
Jessi Turnure reports: Hackers are blocking companies in Conway from files on their computers and won’t give them back until they pay a ransom. Some businesses are now out thousands of dollars with little to show for it. “We were a little scared because we don’t have control over that,” said the owner of Fixed…
Government Data Says Millions Of Health Records Are Breached Every Year
Michela Tindera reports: Either hackers want your health data, or companies like health insurers can’t keep that information safe. That’s a according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The number of annual health data breaches increased 70% to 344 over the past seven years, with 75% of the breached, lost,…
Aspire Health hacked by phishing scheme, lost ‘protected health information’
Brett Kelman reports: Aspire Health, a large Nashville health care company that offers in-home treatment in 25 states, was hacked earlier this month and lost at least some patient information to an unknown cyberattacker. The hack, disclosed for the first time in federal court records filed on Tuesday, occurred after a phishing attack gained access to…
Former govt contractor sentenced in “logic bomb” national security case
There’s what appears to be the final chapter in a case that was first reported in April, 2016. A contractor, Mittesh Das, who was convicted in September, 2017 for sabotaging an army program, was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Here’s the DOJ’s press release of September 11: GREENVILLE – The United States Attorney…