From their website (they also published a press release on this incident): Shields Health Solutions takes seriously the confidentiality and security of patient information. Regrettably, this notice is to inform patients of a recent incident that may have involved some patients’ information. Shields provides specialty pharmacy services to hospitals and other covered entities. On October…
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Personal Data Of 650,000 Oregonians Exposed After Medical Vendor’s Computer Stolen
Kristian Foden-Vencil A stolen computer has exposed the personal information — including names, social security numbers and addresses — of more than 650,000 Oregonians. Thieves stole a computer from the troubled medical transportation company GridWorks last November. It had personal information of patients as well as the company identity numbers of the Portland-area Medicaid provider Health…
DOD contractor suffers ransomware infection
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a 40-year-old electronics company and a well-known US government contractor, has suffered a ransomware infection, ZDNet has learned. The infection hit the company last week. Among the systems that had data encrypted during the incident were the company’s web servers. Read more on ZDNet.
Iowa DHS data breach: Boxed for shredding, documents were dumped by janitor instead
Andrea May Sahouri reports: The Iowa Department of Human Services reported Friday a data breach that occurred in November involving personal information of 4,784 individuals related to income maintenance and social work cases in Dallas County, according to a DHS news release. A contracted custodial company mistakenly emptied boxes containing documents to be shredded into the office’s…
AU: P&N Bank discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed
Charlie Osborne reports: P&N Bank is informing customers of a data breach in which personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive account information was exposed. On Wednesday, a security researcher going under the Twitter handle @vrNicknack pinged Troy Hunt, the operator of the Have I Been Pwned? search engine, with a notice he had received from the bank. Read more…
“Real People,” real data leak: Production company leak exposed personal data of Dove ‘real people’ ad participants
Lucy Ingham reports: A data breach at UK-based Fresh Film Productions, which makes adverts for high-profile companies including Unilever, has exposed sensitive personal data of participants in antiperspirant brand Dove’s ‘real people’ campaign. The company inadvertently exposed the data, which included bank details and passport scans, by leaving a company server hosted online on an…