On May 28, Five Rivers Health Centers in Ohio notified HHS about a data security incident that impacted 155,748 patients. The following is their media notice, linked from the home page of their web site if you can find it (see attached, where I highlighted the location of the link on their home page). DataBreaches.net…
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Chief Operating Officer of Network Security Company Charged with Cyberattack on Medical Center
Note: It seems possible that the incident described in DOJ’s press release below is the incident reported by Salted Hash and DataBreaches.net in 2018. According to Singla’s LinkedIn account, he was COO at Securolytics in Atlanta at the time of the Gwinnett breach. A Georgia man was arraigned today on charges arising out of a…
The Ruthless Cyber Gang Behind the Hospital Ransomware Crisis
Kevin Poulsen and Melanie Evans report on Ryuk threat actors: A ransomware attack on a national hospital chain nearly brought Las Vegas hospitals to their knees. Another attack in Oregon abruptly shut down alerts tied to patient monitors tracking vital signs. In New York, one county’s only trauma center briefly closed to ambulances, with the…
Former Chiropractor Found Guilty of Health Care Fraud Charges that She Schemed to Defraud Health Insurers Out of $2.2 Million
A former Orange County chiropractor was found guilty by a jury today of federal criminal charges accusing her of defrauding health insurers by fraudulently submitting and causing to be billed $2.2 million in billings for chiropractic services never provided, bogus medical diagnoses, office visits that never occurred, and medical devices falsely prescribed. Susan H. Poon,…
Hospital worker in Birmingham on COVID ward used dead patient’s bank card to buy crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks from vending machine
Sky News reports: A healthcare assistant working on a COVID ward has been convicted of using a dead patient’s bank card to buy crisps, fizzy drinks and sweets from a hospital vending machine. Ayesha Basharat, 23, took the card from an 83-year-old woman who had recently passed away at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham. A doctor…
Middletown Man Sentenced To Six Months of Home Confinement For Damaging Former Employer’s Computer Network
David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Levii Delgado, 36, of Middletown, was sentenced today to six months of home confinement and over $13,000 in restitution by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark, Chief United States District Judge for the District of Delaware. Delgado pled guilty in February 2021…