Jefferson Robbins reports: Confidential patient information may have been released in an email breach at Confluence Health, the Wenatchee medical organization said in a Saturday press statement. The information contained in an employee’s breached email account may have included “some patient information” including name and treatment, the press release said, but no financial information was…
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BUSTED? A blackhat’s revenge exposes a 2-year old patient data hack that Holland Eye Surgery & Laser Center failed to disclose
A blackhat hacker known as “Lifelock” had claimed Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center knew about his hack two years ago but failed to disclose it to patients or HHS. A follow-up investigation by DataBreaches.net uncovered evidence supporting his claim. The evidence has been turned over to federal regulators. On June 2, DataBreaches.net reported that…
How they did it (and will likely try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections
Sean Gallagher does a deeper dive into the indictment of 12 GRU agents for meddling with the U.S. 2016 election. Here’s just a small snippet: After digging into this latest indictment, the evidence suggests Trump may not have made a very good call on this matter [publicly expressing doubt that Russia was involved]. But his…
Florida high school caught hacking into opponents’ Hudl videos
Jim Halley reports: Coaches for the football team at Braden River (Bradenton, Fla.), which finished 9-2 last season and advanced to the second round of state 7A playoffs, were caught using a college Hudl account to access opponents’ game and practice videos. As first reported by The Sarasota Herald, a Hudl investigation determined that the…
Idaho Inmates Hacked Prison Service for $225,000 in Credit
Jacey Fortin reports: Hundreds of prison inmates in Idaho found a way to add hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of credit to their personal accounts, officials discovered this month. The prisoners were not inflating their bank accounts, but rather their JPay accounts. JPay is a service that inmates can use to communicate with the…
Southern College of Optometry notifies students whose loan information was hacked
The Southern College of Optometry (SCO) has notified an undisclosed number of students whose student loan information and Social Security numbers were in an employee email account that was hacked. In its notification letter of July 16, SCO President Lewis N. Reich, OD, PhD writes: As stated in our email of June 15, 2018, we discovered…