I read relatively few reports of breaches due to weather-related events, floods, or fires, but when I do see them, I try to post them. This one involves a business associate that provides secure records services. A tornado struck their building in Tennessee on March 3. The disaster impacted patients in Missouri. As Poplar Bluff…
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Mercy Health says nurse was fired for violating privacy of multiple patients not for talking to the media
13ABC reports: Mercy Health is responding to claims made by a fired RN that his termination was retaliation from the hospital after he raised safety concerns with local media. The dispute between a fired Hackley Hospital RN, the Michigan Nurses Association and Mercy Health continues to unfold with the latest response coming from the hospital….
GAO wants four agencies to up their cybersecurity game by this fall
Andrew Eversden reported: Four Cabinet-level agencies are working to finalize risk-management strategies and improve internal cybersecurity coordination by this fall at the behest of the Government Accountability Office, according to new reports released by the watchdog this month. According to the “priority open recommendations” reports, which detail the GAO’s top unimplemented recommendations to an agency,…
Criminal trial of alleged member of thedarkoverlord scheduled for June
There’s a small update in the proceedings involving Nathan Wyatt, aka “Crafty Cockney,” the U.K. national who has been charged in the Eastern District of Missouri for his alleged role in hacks and extortion attempts by thedarkoverlord (TDO). Wyatt had been charged in a sealed indictment back in 2017, and was arrested in the U.K….
Supreme Court to Consider Whether Improper Data Access Violates Computer Crime Law
From EPIC.org: The Supreme Court will decide whether a person who is authorized to access data for some purposes violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if they access the information for other purposes. The case, Van Buren v. United States, concerns a police officer who accessed a law enforcement database to sell the information to…
Brandywine Counseling and Community Services notifies patients of ransomware incident
Brandywine Counseling and Community Services, Inc. disclosed a breach. Note that this is not the Brandywine Urology breach recently disclosed but a different entity and a different breach. DataBreaches.net has reached out to Brandywine Counseling to ask for clarification on certain details, but has not received any response by publication time. This incident is not…