Joel Rosenblatt reports: A former Tesla Inc. software engineer was ordered to appear before a judge to face allegations that three days into his job, he started stealing confidential files and transferring them to a personal storage account. During his two-week employment ending Jan. 6, Alex Khatilov stole more than 6,000 scripts, or files of code, that…
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HIPAA Enforcement by State Attorneys General
HIPAA Journal has a nice recap of of HIPAA enforcement actions by states attorney general. You can read it here.
Update: Security breach that led to abusive posts on Canvas solved, Clark County School District says
Julie Wootton-Greener reports: The Clark County School District has found out how a person gained access to an online learning platform and used it to post “inappropriate messages.” The district said in a statement late Wednesday that the staff had “identified and corrected” the problem that enabled the intruder to access the district’s Canvas system…
Former ADT Technician Pleads Guilty to Having Hacked Customers’ Home Security Video Feeds
A home security technician has pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into customers’ video feeds, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Prerak Shah. Telesforo Aviles, a 35-year-old former ADT employee, pleaded guilty to computer fraud on Thursday before Magistrate Judge David Horan. “This defendant, entrusted with safeguarding customers’ homes, instead intruded on their…
PA: Einstein Healthcare Network Notifies Patients August Email Hack
The following is a press release that appears totally silent as to why it took from August, 2020, when the breach was discovered, until January, 2021 to disclose this breach. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Einstein Healthcare Network (“Einstein”) previously announced that it began mailing letters to patients whose information may have been involved in a data…
Vendor ransomware attack by Ryuk impacted 21 healthcare entities in 2019
A recent report headlining that 560 healthcare facilities were impacted by ransomware attacks in 2020 may have seemed shocking until you realize any one ransomware attack can impact multiple hospitals or clinics in a network (just think of the Universal Health Services incident where the Pennsylvania-based system took 400 facilities offline when they were attacked). …