Back in February, this site reported that a Patterson Dental anonymous FTP server was leaking patient data, according to a security researcher who had discovered the problem and reported it to them and then this site. One of the entities, the Massachusetts General Hospital Dental Group, had patient data caught up in that leak, and…
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TheDarkOverlord names the Farmington victim and releases data
One of the other up-for-sale health databases that DataBreaches.net reported on on Sunday was a facility in Farmington, Missouri. It was described as a “Healthcare Database (48,000 Patients) from Farmington, Missouri, United States.” Yesterday, after investigating the sample and other information, DataBreaches.net reached out to the Midwest Orthopedic Pain & Spine clinic owned by Dr….
Atlanta orthopedic group investigating whether they are TheDarkOverlord’s victim
On Sunday, DataBreaches.net reported on healthcare databases that are up for sale on the darknet in the RealDealMarket. The seller is “TheDarkOverlord,” who provided descriptions of the databases and samples, but did not name the victim entities. In a number of encrypted chats with the hacker since then, DataBreaches.net obtained additional information about the identity of…
264,000 and counting: Hack of EHR/EMR vendor leaves clients scrambling
What data security incident currently holds the undesirable status of 2016’s largest incident involving patient data that has been reported to HHS?* There’s a good chance you’ve never heard about it because the company has remained publicly mute. San Jose-based Bizmatics, Inc. designs and markets electronic health record and electronic medical records practice management software…
Lording it over the healthcare sector: health insurer database with 9.3M entries up for sale
As if yesterday’s news that three databases with 655,000 patients’ records were up for sale on TheRealDeal by “TheDarkOverlord” wasn’t disturbing enough, today they’ve listed a database with 9.3 million records from an unnamed U.S. health insurer. The listing sets a retail price of 750 BTC, which is almost $500,000.00, and the seller describes it this…
More details emerge on hacked patient databases up for sale
Yesterday, I reported that three unidentified patient databases had been put up for sale on the darknet on TheRealDeal market. I was subsequently able to have a chat with TheDarkOverlord (the hacker/seller) about the hacks and the refusal of the victims to pay the extortion demands. You can read more of what TheDarkOverlord shared with me…