Eliza McPhee reports: Cyber criminals hacked a medical practice and stole patients’ confidential information in a terrifying security breach. Perth Anaesthetic Group in the city’s south was hacked on Thursday morning and criminals gained access into the hospital’s database. The cyber hackers sent out fake invoices to several patients demanding they submit payments for treatments. Read…
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20,000 Utah Valley Eye Center patients may have had information hacked after HIPAA breach
Braley Dodson reports: Demographic information for more than 20,000 patients could have been accessed after Utah Valley Eye Center was hacked last year, according to the center. The Provo business’s portal was hacked on June 18, 2018, and an email was sent to 5,764 patients disguised as a notification from PayPal telling the patients they…
Hospital Workers Suspended For Selling Pop Star JJ Lin’s Medical Waste
Jiayun Feng reports: Staff at a hospital in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, have been suspended for allegedly selling medical products used by Singaporean Mandopop singer-songwriter JJ Lin (林俊傑 Lín Jùnjié) during his stay at the facility. Per the Modern Express (in Chinese), 11 employees at Zhenjiang’s First People’s Hospital, including nurses, have been suspended from their jobs…
UK: NHS pagers are leaking medical data
Zack Whittaker reports: An amateur radio rig exposed to the internet and discovered by a security researcher was collecting real-time of medical data and health information broadcast by hospitals and ambulances across U.K. towns and cities. The rig, operated out of a house in North London, was picking up radio waves from over the air and…
Smith’s Food & Drugs: Worker fired after improperly disposing of prescription records
AP reports that Smith’s Food & Drug, a division of Kroger, has terminated an employee who improperly disposed of thousands of old prescription records from a Nevada Store. The firm said it discovered on August 29 that the employee had discarded nearly 58,000 prescriptions in July. The incident reported above does not appear to be…
SC: Prisma Health discloses third patient data breach in two months
Noah Feit reports: Patients and volunteers at several Midlands hospitals might have had their personal information exposed online, according to Prisma Health. The problem was discovered after a Prisma Health employee’s login credentials were compromised, said Tammie Epps, a spokeswoman for the largest hospital system in South Carolina. Read more on The State. I had…