Last month, Dignity Health reported breaches to HHS that involved three of their hospitals in Nevada: Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – San Martin (1764 patients); Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – Siena (2078 patients), and Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals-DeLima (2174 patients). The incident involved the hospitals providing documentation to an unnamed local…
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License, ID data lost in crash: System failure affects 66,500 Hawaii residents
Max Dible reports: Marquis ID Systems, which issues state driver’s licenses and ID cards, reported Thursday that a system crash in September resulted in the loss of scans of sensitive personal documents that might prove irretrievable. The “multiple hard disk crash,” as Marquis described it, coincided with a failure of the company’s backup system and…
British schoolboy, 15, posed as a CIA director to access secret military reports and taunted FBI agents
Fionn Hargreaves reports: A schoolboy hacker impersonated a CIA director to gain access to top secret military reports, a court heard yesterday. Kane Gamble was just 15 when he posed as CIA chief John Brennan from his Leicestershire home, even taking control of his wife’s iPad. The teenager gained access to passwords, personal information, security details,…
KH: Patient records lost in fire in commune hit with HIV outbreak
I think this may be the first media report of a Cambodian data loss incident that I’ve ever posted here. Kong Meta reports: Records for one out of every three HIV patients were lost this month when a fire destroyed computers at Battambang province’s Roka referral hospital, which is located in an area hit by…
“Your (fake) doctor will see you now.”
When it comes to the medical sector, the concern with ID theft is usually the theft of services or the corruption of someone’s medical records in ways that might harm them at some point. But what if the ID theft resulted in someone posing as a doctor and then treating you? Lynh Bui reports that…
UK: Alleged hacker ‘used army of 9,000 ‘zombie’ computers to attack websites such as Skype, Google and Pokemon’
Lara Keay reports: A man has been charged with using an army of 9,000 ‘zombie’ computers to attack websites such as Skype, Google and Pokemon. Alex Bessell, 21, is accused of using them to orchestrate Distributed Denial of Service (DdOS) attacks on several major online firms in a bid to crash their operations. The attacks…