In addition to a breach reported by Renaissance, two other breaches involving protected health information were disclosed yesterday. Here’s what you might want to know about those: Cayuga Medical Center We are still first learning about some victims of the Accellion data breach that took place back in December and January when threat actors exploited…
Category: Health Data
Za: Blood service hit by cyberattack
Hanno Labuschagne reports: The Western Cape Blood Service (WCBS) has confirmed its information systems have been hit by a cyberattack. The non-profit regional health organisation collects blood from voluntary blood donors in the Western Cape and provides safe blood products and services to the community. WCBS said a cyberattack incident was being investigated by contracted…
NC: Sandhills Center remains silent after threat actors claim to have hacked them and exfiltrated 634 GB of their files
Update of September 4: Sandhills subsequently issued a press release that indicates that they could not confirm that the data came from them. See the follow-up report here. Original post: Sandhills Center in North Carolina manages public mental health, intellectual/developmental disabilities and substance use disorder services for the citizens of Anson, Guilford, Harnett, Hoke, Lee,…
Follow-up: Woman Who Stole and Sold Protected Health Information Sentenced to 2 ½ Years in Prison
There was a follow-up last week to a case DataBreaches.net has reported on several times, beginning in December, 2020 when Demetrius Cervantes, 46, of McKinney, and Amanda Lowry, 40, of Sherman, Texas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain protected health information from a protected computer. A third conspirator, Lydia Henslee, faced additional charges and subsequently…
Ca: Unknown number of people’s personal information for sale online after Homewood Health hacked
Penny Daflos reports: CTV News has learned the personal information of British Columbians has been leaked online, with an unknown number of people and agencies potentially still vulnerable, after a data breach at a mental health services provider. Homewood Health, headquartered in Ontario with services and contracts across Canada, acknowledges it was hacked earlier this…
Northern Ireland’s COVID certification service suspended after data leak
Ax Sharma reports: Northern Ireland’s Department of Health (DoH) has temporarily halted its COVID-19 vaccine certification online service following a data exposure incident. Some users of COVIDCert NI app were presented with data of other users, under certain circumstances, says the Department. As seen by BleepingComputer, neither the web service nor the mobile app functionality is accessible at the time…