A press release from PSL Services in Maine (they are a HIPAA-covered entity): Peregrine Corporation d/b/a PSL Services (“PSL Services”) today announced that a recent event may have impacted the security of personal information relating to certain residents of Maine. While PSL Services is still in the process of identifying impacted individuals in order to…
Category: Health Data
Plastic Surgery Patient Photos, Info Exposed by Leaky Database
I’ve reported on a number of hacks and leaks involving plastic surgery centers where nude photos of identifiable patients wind up exposed or in bad actors’ hands. Sergiu Gatlan reports on yet another leak. This one exposed hundreds of thousands of documents in a misconfigured Amazon AWS S3 bucket owned by NextMotion, a French plastic…
Patients records from Craigavon Area Hospital found on public road
Carmel Robinson reports that patient records containing patients’ names, their age, social history as well as a brief medical history and why they had been admitted to hospital were found on a public road by a man walking with his child: The patient records relate to a date in January and refer to 18 named…
Don’t expect a speedy trial date in the case of the alleged member of thedarkoverlord
DataBreaches.net continues to monitor the court docket in the case of Nathan Wyatt, aka “Crafty Cockney,” an alleged member of thedarkoverlord. As I’ve reported previously, Wyatt, a U.K. citizen who was extradited to the U.S. to stand trial here, is not charged with actually hacking any of the victim entities in a case filed in…
Class action lawsuit filed against Puerto Rican hospitals that sufffered ransomware attack
A potential class action lawsuit has been filed against two hospitals in Puerto Rico that experienced a ransomware attack in February 2019. On February 15, 2019, there was a media report that the defendant hospitals in the suit — Pavia Hospital Santurce and Pavia Hospital Hato Rey — had suffered a ransomware attack that was…
Attacked by ransomware, Central Kansas Orthopedic Group refused to pay ransom and restored from backups
On January 9, Central Kansas Orthopedic Group posted a breach notice on their website. Today, the incident, which they reported to HHS on January 28, was added to HHS’s breach tool. From the provider’s notice: Central Kansas Orthopedic Group (“CKOG”) recently discovered that an unauthorized party or group gained access to its computer system. CKOG…