Logan Ramsey reports: A local clinic was forced to close its doors temporarily following a cyberattack on its computer systems on Monday morning. A local hospital is also redirecting it’s emergency services to other area hospitals. It’s not clear how it happened or when the issue will be resolved, but Mountain View Hospital spokesman Brian…
Category: Health Data
Insurance regulators examining Point32Health data breach
Sam Drysdale and Michael P. Norton report: State insurance regulators have opened an examination into a cyberattack on one of the state’s largest health insurance providers. The Division of Insurance is monitoring the Point32Health data breach, which may have compromised personal data including addresses, medical history and Social Security numbers of current and former Harvard…
NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent
It seems that the Meta pixel issue that made headlines in the U.S. last June may first be hitting the NHS in the UK. Shanti Das reports: NHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so. An Observer investigation has uncovered a covert tracking…
Defiant Johns Hopkins doctor testifies she shared private patient records because she feared Russia
Mike Hellgren reports: Defense attorneys for the two Maryland doctors accused of providing the private medical records of patients to help the Russian government rested their cases on Friday afternoon. The lawyer for Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist Dr. Anna Gabrielian only called his client to the stand in her own defense. The lawyer for her husband,…
Two ransomware groups claimed to have attacked Albany ENT & Allergy Services and leaked data, but AENT doesn’t mention that at all in their notification?
On April 28, DataBreaches reported that two different ransomware groups claimed to have attacked Albany ENT & Allergy Services, P.C. in Albany, New York. This week, Albany ENT & Allergy Services notified regulators and 224,486 affected employees and patients about a breach. Their notification is stunning, however, for its lack of certain details. In their…
Tennessee Orthopaedic Clinics notifies HHS of breach; has yet to notify patients
An undated message on the Tennessee Orthopaedic Clinics website states that TOC recently responded to a security incident. They don’t say when they discovered it, but their investigation determined “that an unauthorized party accessed some of our systems between March 20, 2023, and March 24, 2023, and may have accessed or acquired certain files.” The…