Justin McCurry reports: The internet is awash with news and comment about North Korea, from its nuclear tests to speculation about the health of its leader, Kim Jong-un. But its own contribution to the world wide web is tiny, according to a leak that revealed the country has just 28 registered domains. The revelation came after…
Category: Exposure
Court orders WakeMed to mitigate breach, pay fine
There’s a follow-up to a lawsuit noted previously on this site, and I think it will be of interest to those interested in healthcare sector breaches. John Murawski reports: WakeMed Health and Hospitals will soon notify thousands of patients that their personal and medical information was disclosed in court filings over six years. A federal bankruptcy…
St. Elizabeth Physicians’ email gaffe exposed patient email addresses
Here’s an incident involving St. Elizabeth Physicians that happened last month but just showed up on HHS’s public breach tool now. From their August 23 notice: On July 12, 2016 St. Elizabeth Physicians inadvertently released the email addresses of 674 individuals in an email sent by its Weight Management Center inviting the recipients to a…
Geisinger Health Plan notifies 2800 that processing error exposed their PHI to others
Geisinger Health Plan issued the following statement on September 12: DANVILLE, PA — In accordance with Geisinger Health System policy and applicable federal regulations, Geisinger Health Plan has notified approximately 2,800 members from 220 employers that some of their Protected Health Information (PHI) has been disclosed in an unauthorized manner. This disclosure does not affect Geisinger…
The Mystery of the Reappearing FTP server, Part 2
Earlier this week, in the context of discussing of how old and forgotten databases can come back to bite us in costly databreaches, I reported on a somewhat bizarre situation involving files belonging to a Pennsylvania dentist. I have since obtained more information on that situation, and thought I would update you all. Let’s start…
Trump’s campaign mute about data security #fail?
It may not be on the level of failing to adequately secure State Department communications, but it seems Donald Trump’s organization could use a refresher course on data security. And when it finishes that, it might want to tackle a course on transparency. On Sunday night, DataBreaches.net received an email from MacKeeper Security Research Center lead researcher Chris Vickery….