Fox News reports: Foreign government hackers have broken into companies conducting research into COVID-19 treatment and the U.S. healthcare sector, an FBI official reportedly said. Tonya Ugoretz, the FBI Deputy Assistant Director, told participants in an online panel discussion on Thursday that the bureau has seen state-backed hackers looking at a series of healthcare and research institutions. Read more…
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Czechs Warn Hackers Are Preparing Cyber Attacks on Hospitals
Lenka Ponikelska reports: A campaign of serious hacker attacks on Czech hospitals is highly probable in the coming days, the country’s National Cyber and Information Security Agency said. The warning follows an attack last month at the Faculty Hospital in the second-largest Czech city of Brno, where officials were forced to evacuate patients. The threat…
New York State Investigates Network Hack
Scott Ferguson reports: In January, hackers compromised portions of the New York state government’s computer network by taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Citrix enterprise software, according to the Wall Street Journal. While the New York State Office of Information Technology Services discovered the hacking incident on Jan. 28, officials did not disclose the breach…
Account details for 4 million Quidd users shared on hacking forum
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Quidd, an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, appears to have suffered a data breach in 2019, and the details of around four million users are now being shared for free on underground hacking forums. The data, of which ZDNet has obtained samples from three different sources, contains Quidd usernames,…
Saint Francis Ministries Will Be Notifying Patients of Breach
Saint Francis Ministries issued a press release on Friday. It states, in relevant part: On December 19, 2019, Saint Francis became aware of suspicious activity relating to one of its employee’s email accounts. Saint Francis took steps to secure the email account and began working with outside computer forensics specialists to determine the nature and scope of the activity. On February…
A business associate’s response to a breach raises questions of timeliness
I know we’re in the middle of a pandemic, but an incident involving Avalon Health Care Management occurred before all that. And once again, I find myself scratching my head over the timeline in a notification and how Health & Human Services/Office for Civil Rights will view the timeline in terms of compliance with the…