Ruben U. Carvajal, MD recently discovered an incident that may impact certain Ruben U. Carvajal, MD patient information. On January 3, 2018, Dr. Carvajal received a report that certain Ruben U. Carvajal, MD patient information may have been accessible on the internet. Upon receiving this report, Dr. Carvajal initiated an internal investigation and contacted the…
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Sunspire Health notifying patients after employee email accounts accessed in phishing attack
Joseph Goedert reports: Sunspire Health, a nationwide network of addiction treatment facilities, is notifying an undisclosed number of individuals and offering them credit and identity monitoring services after several employee email accounts were accessed in a phishing attack. While the size of the Sunspire attack is not yet publicly known, the incident soon will be…
Pennsylvania birth certificate system hacked; no records stolen
Steve Esack reports: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s birth certificate system was shut down for nearly a week last month after someone hacked into an internal website but did not take or alter citizens records, a government spokesman said Friday. An investigation is continuing into the hack, said Dan Egan, spokesman for the Office of…
LabCorp hacked? Investigation under way (UPDATED)
Ryan Parry reports: Hackers breached the network of one of the largest clinical laboratories in America sparking fears of a major cyber security breach, DailyMail.com can reveal. According to a company insider senior managers were informed that the entire computer network of LabCorp, a Fortune 500 company, was shut down across the US Sunday morning…
Vermont schools lag on cybersecurity while risks hit home with $50K fraud from Pownal
Nicole Higgins DeSmet reports: A cyber thief infiltrated a Vermont supervisory union’s computer network and made a $50,000 transfer out of a school bank account, but safe guards on the account alerted staff members to take action. “A more sophisticated thief or hacker could have spent the time to turn off alerts, make all bank…
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center- Cole notifies patients of personal data breach
The Wellsville Daily reports: UPMC Cole has notified 790 patients treated at UPMC Cole that their personal information may have been inappropriately accessed. […] As a result of UPMC Cole’s internal investigation, it was determined that there were two phishing attacks (e-mails sent from an external source that look like they are from a trusted…