From their substitute notice of July 27, 2021: To the UC San Diego Health community: UC San Diego Health recently experienced a security event involving unauthorized access to some employee email accounts. This notice provides up-to-date information on what happened and what we are doing. When UC San Diego Health discovered the issue, we terminated…
Category: Health Data
PA: Allegheny Intermediate Unit notifying employees, dependents, and vendors about ransomware incident
Update and possible correction: this may be a different breach than the one first reported in February 2020. The post below has been edited to reflect that while I attempt to verify if this was a second incident or not. Yesterday, AIU issued a press release about an incident they say they discovered in January…
FL: TGH Urgent Care says data breach may have impacted 558 patients
WTSP reports: A former employee is accused of taking photos of patients’ driver’s licenses and credit card information, according to TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track. TGH says they think the former employee took pictures of three people’s personal information while working alone on Sept. 9, at the intake window of its Seminole location….
Florida Heart Associates ransomware attack in May still impacting services and care
A May, 2021 ransomware incident impacting Florida Heart Associates was added to HHS’s breach tool this month. But what the tool doesn’t show was the significant impact to the practice’s functioning and patient care. A story on Fox4 in Florida reports that the owners refused to pay an unreported ransom demand and did get control…
WV: Prestera Mental Health Center reports an incident — but is it really a new one?
On July 20, Prestera Mental Health Center posted a notice about what they describe as a “recent” incident. Their notice, which has been picked up by other sites, states, in part: “What Happened? On or about April 1, 2021, Prestera Center discovered that information related to certain individuals was potentially accessible to an unknown actor…
PHOBOS ransomware infection at the Clinical Hospital No.1 CF Witting in Bucharest
The following is all machine translation of a notice from CERT-RO (Romania) SRI, in cooperation with CERT-RO and the Clinical Hospital No.1 CF Witting in Bucharest, recently investigated a cyber attack with the ransomware application PHOBOS, which targeted the entity’s servers in the field of health. Following the encryption of the data, the attackers requested…