Sarah Meehan reports: The University of Maryland Medical System is investigating a malware attack on its computer system that occurred early Sunday, according to the hospital network. A ransomware-style attack affected about 250 of the hospital system’s 27,000 devices, said Jon Burns, the hospital system’s senior vice president and chief information officer. Because the group’s…
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Cancer Treatment Centers of America Notifies Almost 42,000 Patients of Possible Access to Their Protected Health Information
CORRECTION: I don’t know how I did it, but instead of typing 42,000, I kept typing 92,000 when I originally wrote this one up. The number of patients affected was 41,948, as it said at the bottom of the post. My apologies to CTCA. Another phishing incident where an employee’s email account was storing a…
NYSED Security Over Critical Information Systems (Follow-Up Audit by NYS Comptroller)
From the Office of the New York State Comptroller, this follow-up report on the New York State Education Department shows ongoing concerns that have not been addressed at all or only addressed partially: Issued: November 13, 2018 Link to full audit report 2018-F-17 Purpose To determine the extent of implementation of the two recommendations included…
HealthEquity, Inc. notifying 190,000 after two employee email accounts were hacked
Reading a notification that employee email accounts were hacked and customer or patient information may have been accessed is nothing particularly unusual these days. What is a bit surprising, however, is when a breached entity offers those affected five years worth of credit monitoring, remediation, and other services. And that’s exactly what HealthEquity, Inc. is doing….
TX: Metrocare notifies 1,804 patients after employees’ email hacked
On November 1, the Dallas County Mental Health Mental Retardation Center (doing business as Metrocare Services) notified HHS of a breach affecting 1,804. The following is their published notifcation, provided to this site by their spokesperson. DALLAS, TX – Metrocare Services announced today that it is mailing notification letters to some of its community members regarding…
NJ: $200,000 missing in Galloway schools ‘cybersecurity incident’
Claire Lowe, Erin Serpico, and Avalon Zoppo report: GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — About 800 school district employees, including substitute teachers, along with thousands in district funds, were affected by a cybersecurity incident last month, Superintendent Annette C. Giaquinto said Thursday. “We are continuing to work diligently to resolve this matter and provide updates to those affected,”…