Jack Stubbs and Christopher Bing report: Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc in recent weeks, according to publicly-available web archives reviewed by Reuters and three cybersecurity researchers, as the company races to deploy a treatment for the COVID-19 virus. Read more on Reuters.
Ohio medical center notifies patients after online spread sheet exposed protected health information
The following is a press release. A substitute notice also appears on the entity’s website. May 6 — Ashtabula County Medical Center (“ACMC”) announced today that it has become aware that it inadvertently exposed the health information of a limited number of patients to the public in January, 2020. ACMC learned of this problem in…
FTC May Change Obscure Data Breach Rule In Telehealth Era
Ben Kochman reports: The Federal Trade Commission said Friday that it is considering changing a decade-old, little-used rule that requires certain companies handling health information to publicly report data breaches — and which could gain new relevance as consumers increasingly turn to telehealth. The consumer protection agency says it is soliciting comments on whether it should make…
Lurie Children’s sued over patient information breach
Mitch Dudek reports: A mother is suing Lurie Children’s Hospital and two former employees who allegedly accessed the medical records of her 3-year-old daughter, who underwent a sexual abuse examination at the hospital early last year. The mother received a letter from the hospital in late December informing her a nursing assistant had been accessing…
Shiny Hunters’ bursts onto dark web scene following breaches, Microsoft data theft claims
Bradley Barth reports: A malicious actor known as Shiny Hunters has emerged as a serious dark web player following a spate of high-profile breaches, and now the hacker or hackers is claiming to have stolen data from Microsoft’s private GitHub repositories and is threatening to release the code for free. According to researchers from ZeroFOX Alpha Team,…
Cognizant expects to lose between $50m and $70m following ransomware attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: IT services provider Cognizant said in an earnings call this week that a ransomware incident that took place last month in April 2020 will negatively impact its Q2 revenue. “While we anticipate that the revenue impact related to this issue will be largely resolved by the middle of the quarter, we do…