Partners Healthcare System has become the latest healthcare system to disclose that patient data was compromised by employees falling for phishing attacks: Partners HealthCare System, Inc. and its affiliated institutions and hospitals, including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital,North Shore Medical Center, Partners Continuing Care, and Newton-Wellesley Hospital (“Partners…
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TN: Holston Valley patient info found in Bristol recycling bin; nurse resigns over error
Hank Hayes reports: Wellmont Health System has sent letters to patients whose protected health information was recently discovered at Steele Creek Park in Bristol, Wellmont said in a prepared release issued on Wednesday. Wellmont said the patients “were likely not” identity theft victims. Read more on Times News. Wellmont issued the following statement: Wellmont Health…
And then there were four five (Ascension Health entities breached)
Now that I know what I’m looking for, I’m finding more evidence of targeted email attacks affecting members of Ascension Health. For previous reports on this incident, read here and here. On March 16, Sacred Heart Health System in Florida posted this notice on their site about a breach they reported to HHS as affecting…
WV: School system computer network attacked by botnet; Ohio County student allegedly involved
Jeff Jenkins reports: A Wheeling area high school student was recently able to invade the public education computer network and slow things down including standardized testing that was happening in some counties at the time. West Virginia Department of Education Chief Technology Officer Sterling Beane said it happened last week when the student used an…
Another week, another list of vulnerable EDU sites
Last week, this site compiled a list of universities and colleges that TeaMp0isoN had reported were vulnerable to SQL injection or XSS attacks. This week, I’ve again compiled their tweets into one list. As I did last week, I am only providing the names of the schools and not the vulnerable urls. This week, however, I am also…
Northwestern U. hacked, but no personal info on server
Part of Northwestern University‘s network has been offline for over a week as a result of a hack first disclosed on Twitter. On April 5, “MLT” reported a XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerability on XSSposed.org involving themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu. And then this happened: Some Random University Login page : http://themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu/user.php?error=1 Admin Email : admin@mobius.xg Password : manager Yours Truly, ~Chief. — Chief (@Puttied) April…