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Baptist Health Louisville notifies 880 patients after phishing incident

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Dissent

Baptist Health Louisville in Kentucky recently notified 880 patients of a phishing incident. The incident was also reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. According to a substitute notice in response to the breach, on October 3, Baptist Health discovered that an employee’s email account credentials were obtained by an unauthorized third-party…

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9,500 patients at the Medical College of Wisconsin notified of phishing incident

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Dissent

Guy Boulton reports: Confidential medical information or other personal data of 9,500 patients at the Medical College of Wisconsin was compromised by a targeted attack on the school’s email system in July, the Medical College said Friday. The compromised email accounts contained one or more of the following types of information: patients’ names, home addresses, dates…

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UPMC Susquehanna notifies 1,200 patients of data breach

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dissent

The Daily Item reports: UPMC Susquehanna has notified 1,200 patients treated at various UPMC Susquehanna locations that their personal information — including names, dates of birth, contact information and Social Security numbers — may have been inappropriately accessed. Read more on Daily Item. So far, it’s reading like a phishing incident.

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Chase Brexton Health Care notifies more than 16,000 patients after phishing incident

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Dissent

Chase Brexton Health Care in Maryland recently notified 16,562 patients after four employees fell for a phishing attack. The phishing emails were sent on August 2 and 3, and by August 4, the attackers had re-routed employees’ paychecks. Of note, there was no evidence that the attackers were seeking  – or ever accessed or viewed –…

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Cybercriminals hijacked a government server to send sophisticated malware to U.S. companies

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Dissent

Chris Bing reports: A Eastern European hacking group hijacked U.S. state government servers to dispense malware through phishing emails that were designed to appear like they had come from the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to research by Cisco’s Talos team and an analysis by other cybersecurity experts familiar with the activity. The technical findings connect…

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More than four months after phishing attack, AU Medical Center notifies patients and employees

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Dissent

I had this deja vu feeling reading a report by Tom Corwin: Nearly five months after it happened, AU Medical Center announced that some patients may have had their personal information compromised by an attack on faculty email accounts, the hospital announced today.  The attack known as phishing, where users unknowingly open up legitimate-seeming but…

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