Hariz Baharudin reports: Public healthcare cluster National Healthcare Group (NHG) has been fined $6,000 for failing to secure personal data – a year after another healthcare cluster, SingHealth, received a record fine after a breach in its database. Five other companies, including Safra and Creative Technology, have also been sanctioned over the past two months by…
Category: Health Data
A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings
Zack Whittaker reports on a problem that has been documented and headlined, but continues to grow instead of shrink: …. Greenbone found 24 million patient exams storing more than 720 million medical images in September, which first unearthed the scale of the problem as reported by ProPublica. Two months later, the number of exposed servers had increased…
Hackers demand ransom payments from patients of Florida provider
MacKenzie Garrity reports: Patients of Richard Davis, MD, have reported that they have received ransom demands from a cybercriminal who threatens to release their public information if they don’t pay the demand. Dr. Davis is the owner of The Center for Facial Restoration in Miramar, Fla. In November, he discovered that his server had been…
College Athlete Recruiting Software Exposed Students’ Medical Info, Grades
Joseph Cox reports: Front Rush, a technology company that provides services to college athletics programs, exposed a server containing more than 700,000 files to the open internet, including college athletes’ medical records, performance reports, driver licenses, and other personal information. Front Rush works with over 30,000 coaches and 9,500 teams according to its website. The company…
btyDental notifies patients after ransomware attack
bty Dental in Anchorage, Alaska suffered a ransomware attack that they discovered on November 17. The ransomware impacted some of their servers, including the possibility that patients’ names and x-ray images might have been accessed. But the good news is what couldn’t have been accessed. As the practice explains in their notice: After examining the…
CA: Enloe targeted by ransomware attack and elective procedures delayed
I missed this one when it was first published. Ashley Gardner reported on January 3: Enloe Medical Center was targeted by a ransomware attack on Tuesday that caused the hospital to reschedule some elective procedures. According to hospital officials, data stored on the hospital’s network was encrypted, preventing staff from accessing the information. Read more…