Gareth Corfield reports: A leak of 10,000 records at a Leicestershire care home provider exposed elderly patients’ wishes not to be resuscitated, detailed care plans and precisely how much councils paid for individual patients’ care. Not only did Rotherwood Care Group, trading as Rotherwood Healthcare, leave an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket accessible to everyone…
UK: Concerns after patient information stolen from doctor’s car
Maia Snow reports: Concerns have been expressed after documents containing patient information was stolen from a doctor’s car in the north of the county. The Castle Medical Group, in Burton Road, Ashby, has revealed that on the evening of Monday February 24 items were stolen from a doctor’s car. Among the stolen items was paperwork containing…
PA: Former Franklin Regional student to serve probation for cyber attack that crippled school, county computers
Rich Cholodofksy reports: The lawyer for a former Franklin Regional High School student convicted of a cyberattack that disrupted more than a dozen computer systems throughout Westmoreland County in late 2016 told a judge it was all just a prank. Defense attorney Lyle Dresbold said Michaela G. King uploaded a computer program she purchased for…
Chinese dissident can sue law firm over hack that exposed information online, judge rules
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that a Chinese asylum-seeker can sue the Clark Hill law firm over a 2017 hack that allegedly exposed personal data online. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled last week in the case of Guo Wengui, who describes himself in the malpractice suit as…
Munson Healthcare notifies patients after discovering compromised employee email accounts contained PHI employee email accounts compromised
Munson Healthcare in Michigan has published notice of a data breach: Munson Healthcare became aware of a recent data security incident where certain employee email accounts were accessed by an unauthorized third-party. Upon learning of this issue, Munson Healthcare commenced a prompt and thorough investigation, working closely with external cybersecurity professionals. After an extensive forensic…
Nigerian man arrested 3 years after $850,000 stolen from Boulder Valley School District
Dara Bitler reports: The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says a Nigerian man has been arrested more than three years after $850,000 was stolen from the Boulder Valley School District in an email scam. According to the arrest affidavit, Sherifdeen Mogaji, 39, was arrested on February 21 and booked into the Boulder County Jail on suspicion of theft…