Tony Doris reports: The Riviera Beach City Council has authorized the city’s insurer to pay nearly $600,000 worth of ransom to regain access to data walled off through an attack on the city’s computer systems. In a meeting Monday night announced only days before, the board voted 5-0 to authorize the city insurer to pay…
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AG James Backs Data Breach Protection Act Passed by Legislature
Jason Grant reports: State lawmakers have passed legislation that would “modernize” and update consumer data protections and expand New York Attorney General Letitia James’ oversight of data breaches affecting New Yorkers, according to a news release issued by James “applauding” the act’s passage. Called the “Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act,” or SHIELD…
Now THIS is painful: PainMD tells bankruptcy court it lost access to its own patients’ records
OK, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a breach report quite like this one, so grab your favorite beverage and read what Brett Kelman reports on a company that ran into trouble with regulators and then filed for bankruptcy…. and in the process, managed to lose access to all their patients’ stored records because the…
Medical Records Left Behind From Shuttered Chatham Medical Facility After It Lost State Health Department License And Medicare Certification
Dana Kozlov reports on tremendous amount of paper medical records left behind behind the now-shuttered former Medical Professional Home Healthcare Center in Chatham. Read more on CBS and their follow-up here. So okay, folks, you really need to at least look at the pictures in those stories. It’s *disgusting* what has happened to patients’ records….
EatStreet food ordering service discloses security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Eatstreet, an online and mobile food ordering service, disclosed today a security breach that took place last month and during which a hacker stole the company’s database, complete with customer and partner details. ZDNet has learned that responsible for this breach is Gnosticplayers, a hacker who previously breached many other online services,…
MA: ResiDex Software discloses ransomware incident affecting clients’ patients’ protected health information
And yet another ransomware incident. They do not disclose the number of patients who were notified about this. Of note, sounds like their recovery was pretty smooth because they were prepared. BOSTON, June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Tenx Systems, LLC d/b/a ResiDex Software (“ResiDex”) specializes in providing software for assisted living homes, group homes, and organizations…