Seen in the Owensboro Times: Daviess County Public Library is offering patrons another unexpected amnesty on fines for overdue materials after a ransomware attack has limited access to some of the facility’s computers for the second time in three months. Read more on Owensboro Times. It seems that they are saying that this is not…
Hackers demanded ransom in May attack on Asian Art Museum computers
ABC7 News has learned that the computers of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco were hacked in a Ransomware attack in May. The museum’s system was restored but there are still some unanswered questions. Read more on ABC, but unfortunately, their report doesn’t answer most question. They do report that the museum didn’t pay…
Victims of AMCA’s breach allege AMCA not helpful enough in incident response
The other day, I wondered aloud whether there was anything the American Medical Collection Agency (Retrieval Masters) could have done after they were hacked to keep their big clients like Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp. An interesting report by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee on BankInfoSecurity suggests that there might have been. McGee reports that newly submitted court…
OH: Edgepark Medical Supplies notifying 6,572 patients after a “password spray attack”
It appears that RGH Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Edgepark Medical Supplies, has had another HIPAA breach. The first time they came to this site’s attention was in January, 2014, when they disclosed a 2013 malware incident that had gone undetected for nine months and potentially impacted 4,230 patients. Then in January, 2018, they notified HHS and…
Wise Health notifies almost 36,000 after phishing attack compromised employees’ email accounts
Last week, I read a breach notification from Wise Health in Texas, and I duly noted it in my monthly worksheet. Not all incidents logged in my worksheet get reported on the blog, but I do include them in my monthly statistical analyses. Today, however, I see that Wise Health reported the incident to HHS…
PA: Software firm, health care provider accuse each other of theft
Nicholas Malfitano reports on a lawsuit in which a healthcare provider, Post Acute Medical, LLC (PAM), accuses the former owner and operator of its computerized records database, Christopher LeBlanc and Meridian Hospital Systems Corporation of Dallas, Texas, of illegally retaining its confidential patient data. The suit was filed in federal court for the Middle District…