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264,000 and counting: Hack of EHR/EMR vendor leaves clients scrambling

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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Lording it over the healthcare sector: health insurer database with 9.3M entries up for sale

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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More details emerge on hacked patient databases up for sale

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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Trying to get Maricopa County to respond to a privacy concern? Good luck with that!

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Dissent

As I’ve lamented (ok, bitched) many times: trying to notify an entity of a privacy or data security concern can be time-consuming and frustrating if the entity does not provide a clear means to notify them or doesn’t respond to your e-mails or calls. If you are  thinking of trying to notify Maricopa County, Arizona…

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Anyone know what healthcare facilities these are? 655,000 patient records up for sale on dark net (UPDATED)

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Dissent

Seen up for sale on a forum (I’m redacting the ads and samples): Healthcare Database (48,000 Patients) from Farmington, Missouri, United States This product is a considerably large database in plaintext from a healthcare organization in Farmington, Missouri, United States. It was retrieved from a Microsoft Access database within their internal network using readily available plaintext…

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AL governor axes officials, asks FBI for help after finding unauthorized access to state’s criminal justice database

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Dissent

Paul Gattis reports: Gov. Robert Bentley has fired a high-ranking official in the state department of finance and placed a second on leave after concerns of a computer security breach emerged. The breach came to light following an investigation by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, according to a letter Bentley wrote June 10 to the FBI….

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