The University of Utah Health is notifying patients whose protected health information was in some employees’ email accounts after they fell for a phishing attack. The following is a notice posted on their website March 20th: We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident involving…
Category: Phishing
Oregon DHS notifies public of data breach
KTVZ reports: The Oregon Department of Human Services announced Friday that it uncovered a “phishing” incident on March 6 that affected one staff member’s e-mail. […] The security and confidentiality of private health information is critical to the Department of Human Services. While the department cannot confirm that any clients’ personal information was acquired from…
Tandem Diabetes Care notifies customers of phishing incident
Update: This incident was reported to HHS on March 17 as impacting 140,781 patients. Their press release: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (“Tandem”) is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our customers’ information. Regrettably, this notice is to inform our customers of a recent phishing incident that may have involved some customer information. What…
Health Quest still first notifying people of July, 2018 breach in January, 2020
Having to go through numerous email accounts to determine which consumers, employees, or patients, have information in them that will necessitate notification can be a time-consuming task. In June, 2019, this site reported on what appeared to be a very long gap between discovery of a breach and notification to those affected. As reported then,…
Wichita State University notifying 1,762 Iowans whose personal info was accessed by hacker
2019 was a difficult year for Wichita State University in terms of cybersecurity. They started the year with a phishing incident that stole some employees’ paychecks, and it seems that they ended the year with another incident. As their external counsel wrote on March 10: In December 2019, WSU learned of a security incident involving…
Coronavirus: Cybercriminals target healthcare workers with email scam
Rowland Manthorpe reports: Cybercriminal gangs are targeting healthcare professionals with phishing emails about “coronavirus awareness” – part of a wave of scams capitalising on the pandemic. Sky News has seen a copy of an email scam sent to a number of healthcare organisations that pretends to be from each firm’s internal IT team. The email…