Yet another healthcare provider has revealed that they were hacked by thedarkoverlord (TDO). Dr. Robert Spies, a plastic surgeon in Scottsdale, Arizona, has notified HHS and his patients of the hackers’ attempt to extort the practice. Although he does not name the hackers responsible in a notice on his web site, Dr. Spies explains: On…
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Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City notifies 3,472 patients after surgery schedules stolen from nurse anesthetist’s car
The notice on their web site: Notice to Our Patients of Recent Privacy Incident Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is to inform our patients of an incident involving some of that information. On December 16, 2018, we learned from an…
Update: Hackers release CarePartners employees’ wage statements and other financial files
On February 6, this site broke the news that some data from the CarePartners hack of 2018 was being dumped publicly, presumably as a way to increase pressure on CarePartners to pay the “requested” fee for the hackers not to release any more data. As noted in the February 6 report, there were two data…
“Team Orangeworm” claims to be dumping CarePartners’ data from 2018 breach
In June, 2018, CarePartners, a home care service provider to Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and an Ontario-based community health care agency, revealed that they had been breached. The following month, after being contacted by the hackers, CBC News provided more details and reported that there was an extortion demand made by the hackers….
SC: Roper St. Francis notifying patients after employees fall for phishing attack
Roper St. Francis posted the following notice on their web site on January 29: Roper St. Francis Healthcare values the privacy and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding a recent incident that may have involved some of your information. On November 30, 2018, we learned that an unauthorized actor may have…
Employees sacked, CEO fined in SingHealth security breach
Eileen Yu reports: Two employees have been sacked and five senior management executives, including the CEO, fined for their role in Singapore’s most serious security breach, which compromised personal data of 1.5 million SingHealth patients. Further enhancements also will be made to beef up the organisation’s cyber defence, in line with recommendations dished out by…