Denise Lavoieap reports: The man who acknowledges he attacked the computer network at world-renowned Boston children’s hospital two years ago, costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars, is unapologetic and now waging a hunger strike in prison as he awaits trial. Martin Gottesfeld claims the hospital hacking was to protest the treatment of a teenage…
Category: Health Data
Cyber-crooks menacing hospitals are put under the microscope
John Leyden reports: Cybercriminals are spreading into the healthcare sector even though the price per stolen medical record remains lower than for comparable financial account crime. From hospitals becoming victims of hacking attacks to Olympic champions getting their health records leaked by hackers, the health sector has become a major target for cybercrime. The most…
Medical marijuana patients’ personal information found in trash pile
Fox10 reports: A medical marijuana dispensary is conducting an investigation into how sensitive patient information ended up in a pile of trash on a public sidewalk. The man who found the medical records believes this is a breach of patient privacy. The documents weren’t shredded and were laying out in the open. Somehow, trash from…
Abundance of stolen healthcare records on dark web is causing a price collapse
Chris Bing reports: The large amount of leaked patient records stolen and posted for sale to the dark web in recent months has caused prices for most of those records to drop, according to new research provided to CyberScoop and conducted by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology and cybersecurity firms Flashpoint and Intel Security….
AU: Lawyers duped by paramedic injury fraud
Kelly Burke reports: A government employee who duped some of Sydney’s leading law firms by selling the personal details of 130 injured paramedics pocketed more than $200,000 before walking out of court with a good behaviour bond. NSW Ambulance’s former injury management co-ordinator Waqar Ahmad Malik gained access to a list of injured paramedics the NSW…
Boxes of patient information missing from Florida Hospital in Orlando
WFTV reports: Boxes of patient information from Florida Hospital are missing, hospital officials said Friday. A hospital representative said some boxes were misplaced while moving boxes of patient files from one storage unit to another. In a release, the hospital said, “While transferring boxes from our storage vendor, Access, to another one of our storage…