Miya Payton reports: Augusta University says a phishing attack hit faculty email accounts containing the health information of patients. A spokesperson for A-U confirms less than one percent of patients are impacted by the security breach. Officials say an unauthorized third party broke into the medical faculty email accounts. Read more on Fox54.
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Fast Health in Tehachapi suffers security breach
ABC23 reports: Fast Health in Tehachapi is reporting a security breach that could affect over 700 of their patients. The business says a third-party altered a code on their server, stealing the credit card information of close to 700 customers who paid bills online from January 14, 2016 to December 20, 2016. Medical information was…
TX: 2 Additional Cameron Co. Servers Missing
Steve Soliz reports: Cameron County said they’ve mistakenly sold more computer servers than previously thought. Those servers, filled with personal information, were sold off at auctions. CHANNEL 5 NEWS reported how one of those servers was up for sale at a Brownsville flea market. In a statement, Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino announced two more…
Health, personal records of 2,500 Arizona families with newborns lost
Ken Alltucker reports: State health officials have warned 2,500 individuals and families with newborns that a box containing sensitive health, financial and personal information has been lost in the mail. The Arizona Department of Health Services said its newborn-screening program gathered the information for billing purposes. The misplaced records may include health information for children tested in…
Beacon Health System notifies 1,200 patients of employee wrong-doing
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA – May 26, 2017 – Although unaware of any actual or attempted fraudulent misuse of patient information, Beacon Health System (“Beacon”) is notifying approximately 1,200 patients that records were accessed without proper authorization by a former employee. What Happened? After an audit of an employee access to medical records, Beacon discovered, on…
Russian ‘Fancy Bear’ Hackers Tainted Their Huge Leaks With Fake Data
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: The first evidence that the hacker crew responsible for the breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) snuck false information into their leaks has been uncovered by a group of researchers. The hackers, a group called Fancy Bear that U.S. intelligence and law enforcement claim to be sponsored by Russia’s intelligence unit, the…