Lisa Moreno reports: The Multnomah County Health Department began notifying over 2,000 patients Friday that a month-old security breach may have put their personal information at risk. Someone broke into the Gladys McCoy Health Department headquarters in Old Town on the night of Feb. 17 and the county notified police on Feb. 21 after discovering the burglary,…
Category: Health Data
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
ES: HLA Grupo Hospitalario data listed for sale after web server misconfiguration On March 14, a forum user on BreachForums listed data from the HLA Grupo Hospitalario in Spain for sale. The listing advertised 45,000 patient records and information on 1,600 doctors, with samples provided of each. HLA Grupo Hospitalario is owned by Asisa, which…
El Camino Health investigating claims of a data breach
El Camino Health is investigating a possible data breach involving patient data, but whose breach is it? On February 22, DataBreaches received a tip about a listing offering patient data allegedly from El Camino Health in California. The listing was not on any of the usual leak sites, markets, or forums, and the poster was…
Orlando Family Physicians data breach class action settlement
TopClassActions reports that a class action lawsuit against Orlando Family Physicians (OFP) has settled for an undisclosed sum. The settlement, which doesn’t include any admission of guilt by OFP, resolves claims surrounding an April 2021 data breach. The breach reportedly occurred when four OFP employees fell prey to a phishing attack. Although the attack was…
Romanian entities issued monetary penalties for infosecurity and data protection failures
Regulators in Romania have issued monetary penalties to six Romanian entities for insufficient technical and organizational measures to ensure information security. Two other entities were issued fines for other GDPR violations. The fines for insufficient technical and organizational measures ranged from 1,000 to 10,000 euros. Two of the entities were in the medical center. A…
New threat group hacked EU healthcare agency and embassies, researchers say
Jonathan Greig reports: A new hacking group is targeting European countries and organizations in an espionage campaign that began in June 2022, according to new research. Cisco’s Talos cybersecurity team calls the new group “YoroTrooper” and said it has already successfully compromised accounts connected to a “critical” European Union healthcare agency and the World Intellectual…