Bob Clark reports: Hackers attempting to ransom the computer systems at Olean Medical Group on Friday did not access records for 40,000 patients, group officials reported Monday. In a faxed press release sent Monday, OMG officials noted the group is still seeing patients, even if charting is being completed by pen and paper instead of…
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Thousands of medical injury claim records exposed by ad agency
Zack Whittaker reports: An internet advertising company specializing in helping law firms sign up potential clients has exposed close to 150,000 records from a database that was left unsecured. The database contained submissions as part of a lead-generation effort by X Social Media, a Florida-based ad firm that largely uses Facebook to advertise various campaigns…
Breaches have consequences: AMCA files Chapter 11
Jeremy Hill of Bloomberg reports: Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau Inc., whose business was blamed for a large-scale data breach that affected millions of Quest Diagnostics Inc. customers, filed for Chapter 11 protection, citing fallout from the security issue. The company, which collects patient receivables for medical labs under the name American Medical Collection Agency, listed assets…
Personal information of 160 students exposed for three weeks on Temple website
Kelly Brennan reports: The personal information of 160 Temple University students was exposed after an employee accidentally uploaded a document containing information like dates of birth, cell phone numbers and passport information to a public university website. An employee in Temple’s Risk Management office uploaded the document to the Temple University Travel Registry Site on…
Thanks to Equifax breach, 4 US agencies don’t properly verify your data, GAO finds
Alfred Ng reports: Multiple government agencies are relying on a security measure that can be easily bypassed thanks to massive breaches like the Equifax hack, the US Government Accountability Office has found. In a report released Friday, the government watchdog group found that the US Postal Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security…
CO: Hit by ransomware, Estes Park Health decides to pay the ransom to get decryption keys
Zach Clemens reports that Estes Park Health suffered a ransomware attack on June 2. No data was exfiltrated, but it was locked up, and after consulting with their cyberinsurer and IT people, they decided that they had to pay the ransom. “At that point in time we are looking at the patients we have internally,…