Eugenia Lostri reports: On Monday, Aug. 12, hackers leaked 700 GB of data obtained from the government of Argentina, including confidential documents, wiretaps and biometric information from the Argentine Federal Police, along with the personal data of police officers. The Twitter account of the Argentine Naval Prefecture was hacked as well, and used not only…
Hackers Targeting Healthcare with Financially Motivated Cyberattacks
Jessica Davis reports: Healthcare organizations are increasingly being targeted with financially motivated cyberattacks by hackers attempting to gain access to valuable patient records and others sensitive information, according to FireEye researchers. While it’s been clear for some time that hackers have targeted the healthcare sector given many providers operate on outdated or unsupported systems, new…
Intel, Google, Microsoft, and others launch Confidential Computing Consortium for data security
Khari Johnson reports: Major tech companies including Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, IBM, Intel, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Red Hat today announced intent to form the Confidential Computing Consortium to improve security for data in use. Established by the Linux Foundation, the organization plans to bring together hardware vendors, developers, open source experts, and others to promote…
Alberta Health Services warns 7,000 patients their personal health information compromised in email hack
CBC News reports: Alberta Health Services is notifying about 7,000 patients that their health information may have been compromised when a physician’s Gmail account was hacked. The doctor working at the Richmond Road Diagnostic Centre in Calgary improperly used a private account to transmit health information, AHS said in a release on Thursday. Read more…
AU: Call for formal probe into Barwon Health privacy breach
Bay 93.9 reports: There are calls for an independent investigation after sensitive medical records were found on a Geelong street. The documents included data about dementia and mental health patients and contained information including names, conditions, medication, behaviours and even toileting habits. Barwon Health has apologised to residents and families involved in the breach. Read…
Privacy Incident at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Neurology Department
August 22, Boston — Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”) is notifying approximately 9,900 individuals of a privacy incident involving MGH’s Department of Neurology in connection with some of its research programs. On June 24, 2019, MGH learned that an unauthorized third party had access to databases related to two computer applications used by researchers in the…