Jeff Cole reports: The New York State Department of Health confirms there has been a cyberattack within the St. Lawrence Health System, which operates Canton-Potsdam and Gouverneur hospitals. Ambulances were being diverted and computer systems were down — at least at some point. This sounds like a ransomware attack but the health system has not…
Category: Health Data
Junior doctor who accessed patient records improperly and failed to engage with regulator is struck off
From an article in BMJ: A junior doctor who improperly accessed the medical records of three hospital patients without a legitimate reason and who then lied about it to a trust investigation has been struck off the UK medical register after failing to engage with the regulatory process. Neha Muralidharan was suspended for 10 months…
A nightmare breach involving psychotherapy records just got worse
There’s an update to previous post about a ransom situation in Finland impacting 40,000 psychotherapy patients at Vastaamo. As initially reported by Vastaamo, a psychotherapy practice with multiple offices and locations, they had been hacked and the hacker had acquired records of patients who had registered before the end of November 2018. Other sources reported…
Sonoma Valley Hospital computer systems shut down by ‘security incident’
Anne Ward Ernst reports: Sonoma Valley Hospital reported on Thursday, Oct. 22 that a security incident on Oct. 11 knocked out its computer systems, and is not fully restored. The incident “triggered a significant downtime event,” an official said. Read more on Sonoma News. The hospital’s most recent update, posted on its site, reads: On…
Data breach at Dr Reddy’s forces lab to temporarily shut operations across globe
Rhythma Kaul reports: After reports of a data leak from Hyderabad-based global pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd, one of country’s leading pathology laboratory chains came out, IT has been forced to temporarily shut operations in its plants across the world. […] Dr Reddy’s Laboratories had recently received approval from the drugs controller general of…
“We take your privacy seriously….” Thursday edition.
I’ve been reading some other sites’ coverage of the Pfizer leak that was discovered by vpnMentor and shared exclusively with DataBreaches.net. The incident involved a misconfigured cloud storage bucket that exposed hundreds of consumer/patient reports to Pfizer on a reporting line for drug safety concerns or other concerns. As such, it contained a lot of…