As they had threatened to do if Labio did not pay them €20,000, the hacker collective known as Rex Mundi has started dumping/disclosing identifiable patient data. The dump was announced on Twitter by the @RexMundi2015 account. DataBreaches.net confirmed that the records appear to be the results of lab tests performed on patients whose names, dates…
Category: Health Data
OR: Advantage Dental reports data breach affecting 151,000
Tara Bannow reports: Advantage Dental, a Redmond-based provider that serves low-income patients at more than 30 clinics in Oregon, announced Monday an intruder had breached its internal membership database in late February and accessed information on more than 151,000 patients. Compromised data included names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, phone numbers and home addresses, but not…
FL: Sacred Heart Health System billing information hacked
Carlos Gieseken reports: The billing information of 14,000 Sacred Heart Health System patients was compromised recently when an employee email account of the healthcare provider’s third-party billing vendor was hacked. No medical records were breached, but hackers gained access to patient names, dates of service, dates of birth, diagnoses and procedures, total charges and physician…
Paramedic Fired for Taking Pictures with Dying Patients
Waqas writes: … Tatiana Kulikova is nothing like a compassionate paramedic. The 25 year-old Tatiana has been fired by health officers after viewing the pictures she posted online taken in the back of an ambulance. There are several utterly sickening selfies posted by Tatiana. In one of the images, the Russian blonde can be seen…
Amedisys notifies 6,909 patients after failure to locate 142 devices during inventory
On March 2nd, home health and hospice care provider Amedisys issued a press release that disclosed that during a risk management inventory of their devices, which commenced during the second half of 2014, they were unable to locate 142 encrypted computers and laptops. The devices had been assigned to Amedisys clinicians and other team members who left the company between 2011…
Rex Mundi threatens to expose patients’ blood test results if lab doesn’t pay extortion demand (update 1)
Rex Mundi is back again. After hacking Synergie and dumping data from Temporis in January, the hackers, who have made a business of hacking for profit, have announced that they have now hacked a diagnostic laboratory in France, Labio. And once again, they announced the hack on Twitter: Labio.fr hacked last week. 100’s of blood test results in our possession….