If you are following what’s happening with hackers attacking misconfigured MongoDB databases, wiping the data, and then demanding ransom for its return, then you’ll know that although this problem seemed to start on or around December 21 with an actor known as “Harak1r1,” within days of it garnering media attention, we saw almost identical warning…
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US government subcontractor leaks confidential military personnel data
Charlie Osborne reports: A Pentagon subcontractor has exposed reams of highly sensitive details belonging to active military healthcare professionals online, some of which hold top-secret security clearances. Potomac Healthcare Solutions, a subcontractor brought on board to supply healthcare professionals to the US government and military organizations through its Washington, DC.-based contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, was…
Pager system hack resulted in HIPAA breach for Providence Health & Services
A while back, I was shown some live-streaming of a pager system that was being used in what appeared to be a hospital environment, as the pages included room numbers, patient medication information, etc. Unable to figure out what entity or organization was responsible for the system and the exposure as pages flew by rapidly,…
Hit by ransomware, Brandywine Pediatrics recovers quickly and notifies patients
Add Delaware-based Brandywine Pediatrics, P.A. to our growing list of healthcare entities hit by ransomware. The practice notified patients on December 23 that on October 25, they had discovered that their file server was inaccessible due to a computer virus. They did not indicate what type of ransomware was involved. Brandywine reports that were able…
TheDarkOverlord reveals three more attacks, with more to be revealed
Maybe they gave up on the healthcare sector in their extortion attempts, but since the summer, it appears TheDarkOverlord has turned his/its attention to other sectors. There was the WestPark Capital hack and Gorilla Glue attack, and now, in the past month, three more companies – one of which has some defense contracts. Pre-Con Products…
The Worst Health Data Breaches in 2016
It’s relatively easy to identify which were the biggest breaches involving health data that were disclosed in 2016, but which of the hundreds of breaches disclosed were the worst ones if you look beyond the numbers? As in past years, we learned of devices with sensitive unencrypted health information being stolen from vehicles, paper records were found where they…