Oren Koriat reports: … Recently, Cynerio has detected an interesting new wrinkle in the sale of stolen medical data on the dark web. Our research team found a post from a vendor on the dark web offering the medical records of the deceased. In this dark web listing, the vendor mentions that 60,000 of the stolen…
Category: Health Data
Identities of thousands of Tennesseans with HIV made vulnerable by government error
Bret Kelman reports: For nine months, the confidential data just sat there, where hundreds of employees could reach it. The identities of thousands of Tennesseans with HIV or AIDS, both living and dead, were listed in a computer database kept on a server accessible to the entire staff of the Nashville Metro Public Health Department. But…
Follow-Up: MedEvolve provides notice of leaky FTP server
On May 16, DataBreaches.net reported on a breach involving MedEvolve. The breach had been reported to this site by an independent researcher, who had found that some of MedEvolve’s clients’ patient information was exposed on a public FTP server with no login required. The MedEvolve incident was included in the May statistics compiled for Protenus’s…
MO: Cass Regional responds to ransomware attack
A special statement from Cass Regional HOSPITAL NEWS | MONDAY, JULY 9, 2018 At approximately 11 a.m. this morning, Cass Regional Medical Center became aware of a ransomware attack on its information technology infrastructure. Affected areas include internal communication systems and access to the organization’s electronic health record (EHR). At this time, there is no…
NZ: Investigation, apology after doctor loses confidential breast cancer patient files
Kirsty Johnston reports: A doctor lost a file containing highly sensitive information about breast cancer patients, while walking between a hospital and a radiation clinic, it has emerged. Police have been called over the blunder amid fears someone has found the document and plans to make it public. Both agencies involved – Southern District Health…
MSK Group notifying patients of data security incident
MSK Group in Tennessee, and its divisions, OrthoMemphis, Memphis Orthopaedic Group, Tabor Orthopedics, and Crosstown Back & Pain Institute, are notifying patients of a data security incident that they discovered on May 7. In a notification letter dated July 5 and signed by Kimble L. Jenkins, CEO, the orthopedic group offered those affected free services with…