I’ve reported on Nathan Wyatt a number of times, including the extradition request by the U.S., his appeal, and his failure to win his appeal of the extradition order. So we knew this was coming, but let’s start with a recap of the charges he’s facing: One count of conspiracy against the U.S. (18 USC…
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Unsecured backup devices continue to be a hot mess
After a few years of headlines blaring mega-numbers of records exposed by misconfigured RSYNC backups, we might hope that we would be seeing fewer errors by now. But it seems that RSYNC errors continue at a high rate, exposing massive amounts of data. This month, part of what I did was look at RSYNC errors…
Months after notifying patients of a leak, Medico issues press release
In July, DataBreaches.net reported on a leak it had discovered in June. On September 17, Medico of South Carolina reported a breach to HHS that reportedly impacted 6,489 patients. On December 11, they issued a press release that appears to be related to the same incident. Medico of South Carolina “(Medico”) is a medical billing company…
How can we screw up incident response? Let me count the ways — Monday UK Edition
This week, DataBreaches.net was reminded yet again of the risks of trying to alert an entity to a breach. This time, it was not me who was threatened or any of the whitehat researchers I know. This week, it was a citizen who found patient records on the street in his town and undertook to…
Banner Health agrees to $6 million settlement over 2016 breach
Jessica Kim Cohen reports an update on a 2016 breach covered on this site: Banner Health has agreed to pay up to $6 million to victims of a massive data breach the Arizona health system experienced in 2016, according to court documents filed last week. The plaintiffs in the case filed the motion for preliminary…
MN: Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery notifies 80,000 patients of ransomware incident
It’s gotten that there are so many ransomware incidents in the healthcare sector, that even tens of thousands of affected patients may not make headlines. One of the recent additions to HHS’s public breach tool involved the Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery of Minnesota. They reported that 80,000 patients were being notified. The following…