Joe Mandak of AP has an update to the prosecution of Yoandy Perez Llanes for his role in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme that used patient information hacked from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2014: A Cuban national pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he conspired to file 900 phony federal tax…
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HK: Privacy concerns after health hack
Sometimes items don’t show up in my news searches until much later. Here’s an item that was actually published in July in a Hong Kong publication, The Standard: Hackers may have accessed up to 17,000 personal and clinical files kept by the Department of Health. The department said last night the Immunisation Record System of…
Not Just Credit Cards, Hackers Are Now Stealing Medical Records
Attacks on the healthcare sector is a global concern. Amitai Ziv writes: News that a Knesset member recently underwent a medical procedure was leaked to the media and onto social networks within days. Given that most people would prefer their medical information remain private, the leak presumably caused great embarrassment to the MK and his…
Patient info from Missouri clinic hacked by TheDarkOverlord remains online and available. Why?
In a post yesterday, I reported that protected health information and identity information of patients of Athens Orthopedic Clinic that had been leaked online by hackers remained available to anyone who knows where to look for it. Although it’s frustrating and understandably worrying to patients, I give AOC credit that they tried to find the leaks and plug them. I…
Data for 6 Million Minecraft Gamers Stolen from Leet.cc Servers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Data breach index service LeakedSource has told Softpedia that it has received the full database and source of Leet.cc, a service for creating and running Minecraft Pocket Edition servers. According to a LeakedSource spokesperson, the database includes records for 6,084,276 users that have signed up with Leet.cc. For each user, the data included a username,…
Plaintiffs Cannot Bring Data Breach Lawsuits Without Evidence That Information Will Be Used To Harm
Every time there’s a big breach that has consumers or patients outraged, I see rumblings in the Comments section of posts about class-action lawsuits. An article by John Devine, Edward McAndrew, and Gregory Szewczy of Ballard Spahr about a recent opinion in District Court for the D.C. Circuit is a timely reminder of the uphill battle plaintiffs may…