Elizabeth Snell reports: Claiming that larger healthcare facilities have a higher risk of experiencing a health data breach “neglects inherent biases in data collection and reporting practices,” according to a letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Vanderbilt University researchers Daniel Fabbri, PhD, Mark E. Frisse, MD, and Bradley Malin, PhD, wrote a letter to the editor in response…
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HBO sends out breach notifications after May hack
So this is interesting. HBO is sending out breach notification letters related to their breach in May that was disclosed back in July. But to whom are the notifications going? Employees? Customers? Both? And why did it take so many months for notifications to be sent? From their notification letter, copies of which are now…
Feds: Ex-employee targeted Minnesota company with ‘hacker-for-hire’
Mark Reilly reports: Federal prosecutors say a cyberattack on a Monticello-based technology company was prompted by a former worker who hired outside hackers to bring down its websites. The Star Tribune reports on the charges against John Kelsey Gammell, a former Minnesota resident who allegedly hired a hacking-for-hire service in Israel to target Washburn Computer…
MA: EMTs, paramedics may not know personal information is posted online
Boston25 News reported this last week: A state database reveals personal information about some health care workers, who say they’re worried about potential violence following them home. Bob St. Martin is a paramedic who made a troubling discovery earlier this month when he found a link to download his personal information online. “We have to…
Shafer’s attorney appeals revocation of his pretrial release
Attorneys for Justin Shafer have appealed the revocation of his pretrial release. As regular readers of this site likely know already, Shafer has been in jail since April on charges of cyberstalking an FBI agent and the agent’s family. Those cyberstalking charges have nothing to do with three FBI raids conducted on Shafer prior to…
Staunton medical practice reports patient data breach after employee wrong-doing
Gabe Cavallaro reports: Valley Family Medicine (VFM) in Staunton announced Friday that there was a breach of protected health information for some of its patients in mid-July. Two employees printed and misused a mailing list of 8,450 patient names and addresses. One of those employees then used that list to make postcard notifications informing certain…