Spring Hill Insider reports: Thousands of patients may have suffered delays to treatment after it was revealed that the NHS failed to deliver more than half a million sensitive documents to GPs. Test results from biopsies and patient treatment plans were among the thousands of official records that went missing between 2011 and 2016. Read…
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Cheyenne Regional Medical Center notifying patients; employee email accounts had been hacked in March
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming has posted a data security incident notice on its website. According to the notice, on or about April 5, 2019, CRMC became aware of suspicious activity related to certain employee payroll accounts and launched an investigation. They ultimately determined that some CRMC employee accounts were accessed without authorization between…
Biggest data leaks of 2019 that hit Indians
Prabhjote Gill provides a recap of some of the biggest breaches and data leaks affecting Indian residents in 2019. You can read her report on Business Insider. It’s a by-the-numbers type of analysis, but it omits one incident that has numbers higher than one of the ones on their list. The 1to1Help.net leak was not…
Indiana objects to proposed Equifax data breach settlement
According to Bloomberg Law, Indiana has filed an objection to the proposed Equifax data breach settlement. The state wants the language of the settlement changed to exclude further actions by state attorneys general, or failing that, for the court to reject the proposed settlement.
How can we screw up incident response? Let me count the ways — Monday UK Edition
This week, DataBreaches.net was reminded yet again of the risks of trying to alert an entity to a breach. This time, it was not me who was threatened or any of the whitehat researchers I know. This week, it was a citizen who found patient records on the street in his town and undertook to…
Medical Devices Face January 14 D-Day
Medlaw reports: January 14, 2020, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7. So what? Well, if you are in the medical community, it could mean the choice between spending big money on updating the operating systems of your medical devices or facing the constant attacks of hackers with vulnerable, out-dated software. Some hospitals have updated medical…