CNA reports: Several customers of online travel website Booking.com in Taiwan have been vulnerable to fraud this year because of leaks of personal information, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Sunday in a statement. A total of 228 members of Booking.com were defrauded of NT$33.62 million (US$1.09 million) in the first nine months of 2019…
Ca: ‘It just makes me sick’: Shuswap patient receives someone else’s medical records
I really do not know why people are stunned any more. There have been so many reports over the years of these mismailings or giving patients other patients’ records. Why is it still a shock? Jules Knox reports: A Shuswap woman was stunned when her husband received an envelope from Interior Health with somebody else’s medical records…
Millions of Beeline Clients’ Data Leaked – Kommersant
The Moscow Times reports: Personal data relating to the Russian mobile operator Beeline’s 2016 database of 8.7 million clients has been leaked, the Kommersant business daily reported citing banking security department sources. Kommersant checked the database, which list Beeline’s internet clients, and found that it includes full names, addresses and phone numbers. Read more on The Moscow…
Advocate Christ Medical Center demonstrates how NOT to respond to a HIPAA breach
Ok, we know mis-mailings and mix-ups happen, right. But what allegedly happened with Advocate Christ Medical Center is yet another example of how NOT to respond to an incident while claiming you take privacy and security seriously. CBS in Chicago reports that Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn Illinois sent Darnell Payne some other…
DCH Healthcare Systems pays hacker to end ransomware attack
Pat Duggins reports a follow-up on the DCH Hospital system ransomware incident that resulted in the hospitals turning patients away: The DCH Hospital system in west central Alabama may be accepting new patients as soon as Monday after resolving a ransomware attack. The Associated Press and the Tuscaloosa News report the three-hospital network paid a…
3,000 Kent State student emails hacked
Aidan Coyne reports: On Sept. 19 Kent State announced over 3,000 student emails had been hacked the week before. According to Robert Eckman of Kent State’s IT department, the breach was a result of credential harvesting. […] According to Eckman there were two Credential Harvesting incidents that led to this breach, one on 9/22-23 and…