Eleni Gill reports: A cyber security breach temporarily halted cancer radiation treatment services at The Cancer Center of Hawaii on Oahu, the center acknowledged today. The company, which conducts radiation treatment for cancer patients at two locations — Pali Momi Medical Center and St. Francis’ hospital campus in Liliha — confirmed Tuesday it experienced a computer network…
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…
Waco’s online water payment portal breached, card data possibly captured
Another day, another Click2Gov client reporting a breach. This time it’s Waco, Texas. Update: Gemini Advisory reports that 2500 cards were involved.
Iran claims foiled massive state-sponsored cyber-attack
i24News reports: Iran has foiled a massive cyber-attack on its “electronic infrastructure”, the country’s telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced on Wednesday. Going into little detail on what exactly was targeted, he said that the exact scale of the attack was yet being established. Read more on i24News. This is all so highly politicized…
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center notifying patients; employee email accounts had been hacked in March
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming has posted a data security incident notice on its website. According to the notice, on or about April 5, 2019, CRMC became aware of suspicious activity related to certain employee payroll accounts and launched an investigation. They ultimately determined that some CRMC employee accounts were accessed without authorization between…
Police Procedural: How South Carolina Arrest Records Were Exposed
UpGuard reports: The UpGuard Research team can now disclose that a cloud storage bucket containing personally identifiable information (PII) for thousands of people in the South Carolina justice system has been secured. An employee of Spartan Technology, a South Carolina tech company, had uploaded a collection of backups to the AWS S3 storage service. The data collection…