Charissa Yong reports: American Mikhy Farrera-Brochez was sentenced on Friday (Sept 27) to two years in jail for using a stolen HIV database from Singapore to extort from the Singapore Government. A Kentucky federal court had earlier in June convicted Farrera-Brochez, 34, of two counts of extortion in two e-mails sent on Jan 22 and…
Category: Health Data
Two Southwestern Ontario hospitals hit by cyber attack
Kathleen Saylors reports: Two Southwestern Ontario hospitals, connected by shared infrastructure, are currently suffering cyber attacks, the latest in a string of similar incursions in the area this week. The Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance, which oversees the Listowel hospital, about 50 kilometres north of Stratford, and the Wingham hospital in northeast Huron County, confirmed Thursday…
UK: Unshredded NHS records were dumped in a town centre to weigh down scaffolding at art festival
We really need to have an “Oh, FFS!” category for breaches. Rob Pattinson reports: Medical records of hundreds of thousands of NHS patients were dumped in a town centre to weigh down scaffolding. They were meant to be shredded but instead used as ballast for an art festival structure. Read more on The Sun.
[CORRECTED] Peoples Injury Network Northwest notifies patients of ransomware incident
Like so many other ransomware incidents we’ve read about in the past year, investigators were not able to conclusively determine that patient data had not been accessed or exfiltrated. As a result, the Peoples Injury Network Northwest (PINN) of Washington recently notified 12,502 Washington residents that their data was potentially at risk from an April…
‘Detailed and graphic’: Clinic faxes patients’ highly sensitive medical histories to wrong number
Melissa Cunningham reports: A Melbourne medical clinic has been inadvertently faxing highly sensitive patient details including mental health and family medical histories to a Greenvale man for at least two years. The man said he has been sporadically faxed at least 10 medical referrals for specialist consultations from the Harding Street Medical Centre in Coburg….
WY: Gillette hospital targeted in ransomware attack
Seth Klamann reports: Campbell County Health in Gillette was targeted in a ransomware attack Friday, according to an alert the state Department of Health sent to health care providers. The attack occurred early Friday morning, at approximately 3 a.m. The hospital “experienced serious computer issues” due to the attack. This caused a “service disruption” at…