Benjamin Freed reports: A public-health agency in central Illinois has had to retreat to social media to update residents about the ongoing spread of the new coronavirus after a ransomware attack disabled its main website and briefly cut off employees from medical files. Workers at the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District discovered Tuesday that they were victims of…
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OK: Jay schools working to recover from cyber attack
KSN reports: The Jay Public School District is working to recover after falling victim to a cyber attack. Since Monday, Jay Public Schools Superintendent Larry Shackelford and his district have been dealing with the aftermath of getting hacked. The district is the only one in Oklahoma to have dealt with a cyber attack this year….
Oklahoma Accused of Negligence in Massive 2018 Data Breach
Randy Ellis reports: A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Oklahoma Department of Securities over a massive December 2018 data breach that allegedly caused the names, Social Security numbers and other personal information of more than 300,000 people to be published to the internet. The department caused the data breach by negligently misconfiguring a…
Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Fires Employees for Snooping on Medical Records
HIPAA Journal reports: Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, CA has fired several employees for snooping on the medical records of the Saugus High School shooter. […] On November 14, 2009, a student of Saugus High School shot five students, killing two before turning the pistol on himself. The shooter was taken to Henry…
LinkedIn Appeals Important CFAA Ruling Regarding Scraping Public Info Just As Concerns Raised About Clearview
Mike Masnick writes: Last fall we were happy to see the 9th Circuit rule against LinkedIn in its CFAA case against HiQ. If you don’t recall, the CFAA is the “anti-hacking” law that has been widely abused over the years to try to shut down perfectly reasonable activity. At issue is whether “scraping” information violates a…
Northeast Radiology notifies patients of PACS data security incident
Note: Northeast Radiology issued a press release yesterday about a data security incident that their healthcare management services provider, Alliance HealthCare Services, notified them about. DataBreaches.net noted that Alliance notified Northeast Radiology on January 11, 2020 — the day after TechCrunch reported updated research on the problem with exposed PACS leaking protected health information. Although…