AP reports: A Massachusetts hospital says a data breach exposed information about some 12,000 patients. Baystate Health of Springfield said Monday that a phishing incident resulted in unauthorized access to the email accounts of several employees between Feb. 7 and March 7. The hospital says the accounts included patient names and dates of birth, certain…
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TX: Weslaco hospital: patient data potentially compromised
Weslaco Regional Rehabilitation Hospital is notifying patients their information may have been compromised, according to a news release the hospital sent Monday. The hospital’s investigation, which included a third-party forensic firm, found that some employees’ email accounts were compromised in October 2018, the news release stated. Some emails included patient data, including names, dates of…
Hardin Memorial Hospital issues statement on ‘information technology disturbance’
On April 6, WAVE reported that Hardin Memorial Hospital had experienced some type of attack or interruption over the weekend that might be a hacking incident. Was it a ransomware attack or something else? It wasn’t clear from the hospital’s initial statement to WAVE and it’s still not been made clear. What has been made…
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Rips Into Equifax Over Its Massive 2017 Data Breach.
So the Congressional report on Equifax’s massive 2017 databreach was released. The title gives you a clue as to what you can expect to read in it: HOW EQUIFAX NEGLECTED CYBERSECURITY AND SUFFERED A DEVASTATING DATA BREACH STAFF REPORT PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE The report is 71 pages, and the following is…
OH: University Hospitals’ employee accidentally shared health information for hundreds of patients
Ginger Christ reports: An employee at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital accidentally disclosed private health information for about 840 patients in late February, according to a news release today from the health system. UH said the employee, who has not been publicly identified, sent an email to a “select group of patients or…
AeroGarden maker says hackers stole months of credit card data
Zack Whittaker reports: Bad news for home gardeners: criminals might have your credit card data. AeroGrow, the maker of the at-home garden kit AeroGarden, said in a letter to customers that its website had credit card scraping malware for more than four months. The company said anyone who bought something through its website between October…