Reuters reports: Swedish prosecutors said on Tuesday an investigation showed that Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency had carried out serious data secrecy breaches at Sweden’s sports confederation in 2017 and 2018 but it was nevertheless dropping the case. The Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement that repeated and comprehensive breaches had resulted in the…
Category: Health Data
The State Of Health Data For Vulnerable Populations, Why Cybercriminals Target Children, The Elderly, and the Dead
Jessica Sganga and Kenneth Wang of Knobbe Marten write: As of 2021, more than twice the number of data breaches are now being reported than 6 years ago and three times the number of data breaches that occurred in 2010.[1] While credit cards and social security numbers are perennial favorites, cybercrime has begun to favor the…
Lawsuit accuses Pennsylvania addiction treatment center of failing to protect patient information from data hack
In February, HHS added an incident to their public breach tool involving Pennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge, an addiction treatment center. In July, 2020, PPATC had discovered that an unauthorized individual had accessed some employee email accounts. A forensic investigation could not determine what information in those accounts had been accessed, and they wound up…
Ca: Privacy breach at RDRHC Diagnostic Imaging department
rdnewsNOW reports: An internal investigation by Alberta Health Services (AHS) has revealed 3,224 patients had their electronic health records accessed improperly over a two-year period at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre (RDRHC) by two clerical employees in the Diagnostic Imaging (DI) department. The AHS investigation concluded that one DI employee had improperly accessed the patient…
Florissant dialysis center faces class-action lawsuit after I-Team investigates
PJ Randhawa reports: A popular Florissant dialysis clinic is the subject of a class-action lawsuit after an I-Team report uncovered the facility “lost” the medical records of up to 60 patients. In July, the I-Team found dozens of private medical records for DaVita Dialysis patients dumped behind an abandoned building in north St. Louis. We…
IT: USL Umbria2, a healthcare facility, attacked with ransomware
The following is a translation of a report by Ruetir: IT attack on the IT systems of the USU Umbria 2 whose malfunctions have been detected since Sunday morning. Investigations by the Terni postal police are underway. In particular, the presence of viruses was found which, in addition to the corporate network, also affected part…