Matthew Braga, Lori Ward, Andrew Culbert report: The detailed medical histories and contact information of possibly tens of thousands of home-care patients in Ontario are allegedly being held for ransom by thieves who recently raided the computer systems of a health-care provider. CarePartners, which provides home medical care services on behalf of the Ontario government,…
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Pennsylvania birth certificate system hacked; no records stolen
Steve Esack reports: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s birth certificate system was shut down for nearly a week last month after someone hacked into an internal website but did not take or alter citizens records, a government spokesman said Friday. An investigation is continuing into the hack, said Dan Egan, spokesman for the Office of…
LabCorp hacked? Investigation under way (UPDATED)
Ryan Parry reports: Hackers breached the network of one of the largest clinical laboratories in America sparking fears of a major cyber security breach, DailyMail.com can reveal. According to a company insider senior managers were informed that the entire computer network of LabCorp, a Fortune 500 company, was shut down across the US Sunday morning…
NJ: C-TEC: Student information may be impacted by data breach
Bethany Bruner reports: Students at the Career and Technology Education Center of Licking County may have had their personal information, including names and social security numbers, exposed to a hacker earlier this year. Brian Wilfong, Public Relations and Marketing Coordinator for C-TEC, said the school first learned of a possible data breach on April 19….
TX: Hunt Regional Medical Center Notifies Patients of Possible Breach Due to Hack of Employee Email
This breach notification is dated June 29, but just appeared on HHS’s breach tool today with that submission date to them. Hunt Regional Medical Center Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident Greenville – Hunt Memorial Hospital District (“Hunt”) has notified patients of a data security incident that took place last month. On May 1, 2018,…
Tennessee hospice notifying patients whose information was accessed after employees fell for phishing attacks
Alive Hospice in Tennessee is notifying patients whose personal and protected health information were in employee emails that were accessed by an unknown person or persons beginning on December 20, 2017 and again on April 5, 2018 after two employees fell prey to phishing attacks. The attacks were discovered on May 15, 2018. Here is…