Nathaniel Lash reports: A public-data tool built by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to track the prevalence of hepatitis infections left individuals’ health records accessible, compromising the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and intimate health records of thousands of people receiving medical care in Philadelphia. The department learned of the breach Friday when an…
Monterey Health Center in Oregon, Central Valley Regional Center in California both announce patient data breaches
On August 12, 2019, Monterey Health Center in Oregon became aware that they had suffered a ransomware attack. According to a press release issued yesterday, they were able to restore patient data, and were able to rule out any data exfiltration, but were not able to rule out access to the patient data. The types…
UK: ‘I feel violated’ – Hospital sends personal details of 11 patients to wrong address
David Hannant reports: A disabled mother-of-two says she feels violated after personal details about her sent by her hospital were delivered to the wrong address. Cireena Read, of Northrepps, was distraught when she opened a letter from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital informing her of the error, which saw personal and medical details about…
City Of Carrollton, Texas Victimized By Cyber Attack
CBS reports that Carrollton, Texas became the victim of a cyber attack Thursday morning. Some city services have been reportedly been impacted by the attack, which was only described as a hack without other details at this time.
Click2Mail issues statement to customers, acknowledges hack (updated)
As reported first by DataBreaches.net, Click2Mail was investigating allegations that they had had a breach. They have now responded to this site’s inquiry on October 4th with a copy of the statement they are sending out to all customers today, below. Update: In a follow-up communication, Lee Garvey, President and CEO of Click2Mail, informs this…
“This is the word of honor hacker.” says the scammer who tries to extort you.
I received another one of those “I hacked your OS and will send screenshots of all the adult sites you visited, blahblahblah” emails. As I do, I checked the BTC wallet. I am always glad if I find no payments, but when I went to check the BTC wallet for this particular one, I found…