Caitlin Taylor and Makda Ghebreslassie report: A Toronto plastic surgeon and self-styled social media influencer has had his licence to practise medicine suspended. In a decision released on May 12, the disciplinary committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) suspended the licence of Dr. Martin Jugenburg — who goes by Dr….
Category: Health Data
VA: Alexandria nursing assistant charged with identity theft
Insider breaches — including insider wrongdoing — were down last year according to Verizon’s annual report and Protenus’s 2021 Breach Barometer for incidents involving health or medical data reported in the U.S. But “down” does not mean “gone.” Rogue employees are still a significant risk for entities, as James Cullum reports: An Alexandria certified nursing assistant…
Ie: Cyberattack on HSE: Scale of damage from Conti’s ransomware attack will not be known for days
Jack Horgan-Jones and Conor Lally report: It will be at least three days before the scale of the damage from “possibly the most significant cyber crime attack on the Irish State” is clear, a Government Minister has said. Green Party Minister of State for Communications Ossian Smyth said the attack, which led to HSE IT systems being…
TX: Gastroenterology Consultants, P.A. hit by ransomware in January, but patients not notified yet?
Back in December, this site reported on a ransomware incident affecting Gastroenterology Consultants, LTD in Nevada. They had been the target of Conti threat actors, and they reported the incident to HHS in January as impacting 2,500 patients. Yesterday,, I saw another listing for Gastroenterology Consultants, but this is Gastroenterology Consultants, P.A. in Houston, Texas….
Ie: HSE shuts down IT system after ‘significant’ cyber attack
RTE reports: The Health Service Executive has temporarily shut down its IT system following what it described as a “significant ransomware attack”. The health body said it had taken the precaution of shutting down its systems to further protect them, and to allow it to assess the situation. The issue has led to Dublin’s Rotunda…
PA: Acting Secretary Of Health And Deputy Don’t Testify At Contact Tracing Data Breach Hearing
Meghan Schiller reports: t’s a battle between transparency and legal quagmire: who should answer questions about the data breach of private health information for some 70,000 Pennsylvanians? KDKA’s Meghan Schiller talked to one local state senator who tried to get the conversation started but said it ended in silence. “It’s great to ask questions that…