Liz Freeman reports: The NCH Healthcare System is investigating a data security breach in which an unauthorized entity gained access to some employees’ email accounts, according to hospital officials. NCH became aware June 14 of suspicious activity related to its payroll system and launched an investigation. Read more on Naples Daily News. NCH’s notice on their…
KNEO radio station attacked by ransomware
KNEO radio station, a Christian radio station, got hit with ransomware and wound up with all its audio files corrupted. FourStatesHomePage reports that the radio station first became aware of the attack on Sunday afternoon when they experienced a system breakdown. The staff of KNEO became aware of the system breakdown Sunday afternoon. The station’s…
Hy-Vee Announces Payment Card Breach
August 14 – Hy-Vee takes the security of payment card data very seriously. We want to make customers aware of an investigation we are conducting into a security incident involving our payment processing systems that is focused on transactions at some Hy-Vee fuel pumps, drive-thru coffee shops, and restaurants, as well as to provide information…
Public Transport Victoria in breach of Privacy Act after re-identifiable data on over 15m myki cards released
Asha Barbaschow reports: Public Transport Victoria (PTV) has been found in breach of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (PDP Act) by the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC) for releasing data that exposed the travel history of 15,184,336 myki cards. The myki dataset contained a record of “touch on” and “touch off”…
Lazarus group behind recent cyberattack on South Africa – Kaspersky
Carin Smith reports: A recent cyberattack in which South Africa was apparently among 17 countries targeted by North Korean hackers, relates to the activity of the so-called Lazarus group, according to Dr Amin Hasbini, head of Kaspersky’s global research and analysis team for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. Time reported on Tuesday that UN…
Healthcare entities continue to be targeted: eye care provider in Ohio hit with ransomware, dental practice in Minnesota reports cyberattack
I wonder if HHS will need to take on more staff to deal with all the HIPAA breaches being disclosed this year. In July alone, this blogger logged approximately 65 reports on my worksheet, although a number of them were all reporting on a few business associate breaches. In any event, there are a lot…