Daniel Croft reports: An investigation by Defence Housing Australia (DHA) is currently underway after it was notified that one of its third-party service providers had been hit by a cyber attack. The organisation, which provides housing and accommodation for military personnel and their families on and off base, has stressed that while there has been…
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Indiana notifying Medicaid recipients of CareSource security breach
Carley Lanich reports: The protected health information of some Indiana Medicaid members may have been compromised in a recent security breach involving Ohio-based CareSource. Officials with the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration announced Friday that the breach of CareSource, a managed care entity, happened in late May and involved the personal information of more…
AZ: Data breach could affect more than 100,000 in Pima County
Jamie Donnelly reports on yet more people affected by the MOVEit breach: More than 100,000 Pima County residents could be affected by a nationwide data breach that affected the company that handled COVID-19 case investigations and contact tracing here, officials say. The company, Maximus Health Services Inc., notified the county earlier this month that data…
Jp: Medical organizations and IT vendors “should bear part of the cyber damage”.
[Translation:] A document released on August 24 by the Japan Medical Association Policy Research Institute (Nichi-Isouken), which aims to plan medical policy, is causing controversy on SNS. Regarding contracts and responsibility sharing between medical institutions and system vendors, based on the “principle of good faith”, if the vendor’s risk explanation is insufficient, the medical institution…
UK: Metropolitan Police on red alert after details of officers and staff hacked in massive security breach
Mike Gillard and Mike Sullivan report: The Metropolitan Police were on red alert tonight after details of officers and staff were hacked in a massive security breach. All 47,000 personnel were warned of the risk their photos, names and ranks had been stolen when cyber crooks penetrated the IT systems of a contractor printing warrant…
134K Massachusetts residents impacted by ‘global security incident’
Stacey Scott reports: Massachusetts health officials are warning over 134,000 individuals who are currently or were previously enrolled in certain state programs that their personal information has been involved in a recent third-party data security breach. The breach is part of a worldwide incident that involves a file-transfer software program called “MOVEit.” UMass Chan Medical…