Chrispinus Wekesa reports: The Nairobi government has remained silent after the Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital was burglaried (sic) and medical records stolen. Staff at the hospital said on Tuesday night, unknown people broke into the procurement office and stole medical records. Health CEC Bernard Muia and superintendent Musa Mohamed were reluctant to speak to the Star….
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NZME data accessed in security breach
Radio New Zealand reports: Data of about 76,000 people may have been leaked in a security breach of a cloud server used by media company NZME. The company, whose portfolio includes The New Zealand Herald, said data may have been accessed through a third party cloud server holding information collected through competitions and some client data….
Hackers attack Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske and hold bosses to ransom over stolen information
LynBarton reports: Cyber criminals have made “multiple” attacks on Cornwall’s main hospital in the past year with repeated attempts to hold health bosses to ransom by stealing sensitive information. According to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the IT system of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) was once infected ransom-ware, a type of malicious software…
AU: Privacy watchdog called after Health Department data breach
Noel Towell and Rania Spooner report: Health Minister Sussan Ley has apologised to doctors over the accidental leaking of sensitive Medicare data. The federal privacy watchdog will assess Health Department claims that no patients’ medical information has been released after sensitive information on the Pharmaceutical Benefits and Medicare Benefits schemes was accidentally leaked by the department. […] The department…
Alberta Hospital Edmonton notifying 1,300 of snooping employee
Keith Gerein reports: A former employee of Alberta Hospital Edmonton inappropriately accessed the records of more than 1,300 patients, Alberta Health Services announced Monday in what is believed to be the province’s largest deliberate breach of health information. “In terms of a unique individual inappropriately accessing health care records, it is not within the scope…
Armenian Hackers Leak Azerbaijani Banking and Military Data
Waqas reports: Armenian hackers from Monte Melkonian Cyber Army (MMCA) have leaked a trove of data which they claim belongs to Azerbaijani banks, military and police servers. In an email to HackRead, one of the representatives from MMCA said that reason for targeting government and financial servers was to send a ”precious gift” to Azeris on the 25th anniversary of the…