Jeff Landa reports: A health-care professional at Glendale Adventist Medical Center was fired Wednesday over a privacy breach involving hundreds of patient medical records. Glendale Adventist officials said in a statement on Friday that the protected health information of 528 patients was accessed without authorization by a hospital employee. The unauthorized access included 88 patient…
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5,051 records with personal info of Virginia vets discovered in fired ex-Veteran Services employee’s storage unit
There’s a follow-up to a breach first disclosed in October. Mark Bowes reports: More than 5,000 “personally identifiable” records of Virginia veterans – including nearly 700 benefit claims that went unfiled, were filed late or missing key documents – were included in boxes of paperwork discovered in the storage unit of a fired Virginia Department…
Michigan State University to spend $2.9 million in wake of data breach
Marie Weidmayer reports: MSU will spend an estimated $2.9 million on identity theft protection in the wake of the data breach that exposed university records of about 400,000 people. According to a statement from MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU will provide credit monitoring and identity theft protection free of charge to everyone affected. “We have a reserve fund that…
Feds: Former call center employee pleads guilty to extortion demand for information stolen from Cincinnati company
WLWT reports: A Cincinnati man pleaded guilty after U.S. Attorney Benjamin Glassman said he stole data from a local company and demanded ransom. Carlos Ruiz-Rodriguez, 25, was a call center employee for two years. Glassman said he stole company schematics and client information and told the company he would release it if the company did…
Sagewood notifies 863 employees and residents of cyber attack
LCS Westminster Partnership IV, LLP d/b/a Sagewood, is reporting what they describe as a ransomware attack without any ransom demand: Sagewood, a retirement community located at 4555 E Mayo Blvd. in Phoenix, has notified 800 current and former residents and the Department of Health and Human Services of a cyber breach. Sagewood promptly investigated the…
Data breach exposed locations of oil industry explosives, handler credentials
Dell Cameron reports: A misconfigured storage device discovered by a security researcher in October left exposed thousands of internal files belonging to an explosives-handling company. The files, which have since been secured, reportedly included details about facilities in three U.S. states where explosives are stored. The leaky file repository belonged to Allied-Horizontal Wireline Services(AHWS), a leading wireline company…