Another day, another report of a data security incident because an employee fell for a phishing attack and the entity can’t be sure whether any protected health information or PII was actually accessed. Delta Dental of Arizona disclosed a July 8 incident this week. According to their press release, and after reiterating that they were…
Data breach put thousands of Florida Blue members’ personal information at risk
C. Isaiah Smalls II reports that the Magellan Health NIA breach reported previously on this site has also impacted Florida Blue members. Florida Blue says “less than 1 percent” of its approximately 5 million members were affected. Read more on Miami Herald. The Magellan NIA attack impacted more than 55,000 members and patients of covered…
In September, VMedia notified members of a vBulletin 0day
Today I learned from one of my readers that VMedia had a breach that they had disclosed back on September 25, but it apparently wasn’t picked up by media outlets until October 31. The following is the notice from their website. The media coverage is in French. On September 25, 2019, vBulletin message boards experienced…
Senator Warner wants to know what HHS OCR did in response to massive leak of patient medical images by organizations
This is a press release you may want to really read as it raises a number of important questions to HHS OCR as to how they do things — and how quickly (or not quickly). Nov 08 2019 WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and co-founder of the…
Ransomware Attacks Hit Everis and Spain’s Largest Radio Network
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Everis, an NTT DATA company and one of Spain’s largest managed service providers (MSP), had its computer systems encrypted today in a ransomware attack, just as it happened to Spain’s largest radio station Cadena SER (Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión). While the ransomware attacks were not yet publicly acknowledged by the company, the ransom note left…
Main Street Clinical Associates, PA Notifies Patients After Looters Steal PHI
The press release below the separator on this page describes a statistically unusual incident; an explosion at a building adjacent to a covered entity caused an emergency evacuation in which files and file rooms were left open and unsecured. But then the entity and its employees were not allowed to re-enter the building for months….