Marc Larocque reports: The nonprofit that runs the downtown homeless shelter was a target in a ransomware attack, which is a type of computer virus that encrypts user data, demanding ransom payments in return for access. Father Bill’s and MainSpring announced on Tuesday that it was attacked by a ransomware virus on April 11. But…
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OH: More than 500 Summa Health patients’ information at risk after possible data breach
Robin Goist reports: More than 500 patient medical records and other personal information are at-risk as a result of an email phishing incident that targeted Summa Health employees. The Akron-based health system announced Friday it is sending letters to patients whose information may have been accessed by an “unauthorized person” who gained control of employee…
FL: 2nd Employee Arrested In WellCare Laptop Thefts
D’Ann Lawrence White reports: A second employee has been arrested in connection with the theft of laptop computers from WellCare at 8724 Henderson Road in Town n’ Country. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested Phillip Jovan Hill, 30, after he was accused of taking part in the theft of computer equipment from the health insurance…
5 million personal records belonging to MedicareSupplement.com exposed to public
Paul Bischoff writes: An online database of more than 5 million records apparently belonging to MedicareSupplement.com was left open and accessible to the public. On May 13, 2019, Comparitech worked alongside security researcher Bob Diachenko to uncover the publicly available MongoDB instance that appears to be part of the website’s marketing leads database. MedicareSupplement.com is…
MN: Woodbury’s Merrill Arts Center hit with data theft
Bob Shaw reports: A list of donors and patrons of the Merrill Arts Center in Woodbury has been stolen. Board president Jeriann Jevning-Jones reported the theft to the Woodbury Police, saying the theft also involved personal information of customers, sponsors and advertisers. The lists were used to raise funds for “a new area theater company…
Former employee of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Allegheny Health Network sentenced to 1 year in prison for disclosing patient files
There’s an update to a HIPAA breach case that this site has been following since 2018, when DOJ announced that Linda S. Kalina had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with six counts of wrongfully obtaining and disclosing the health information of another individual. In March of this year, she…