The notice on their web site: Notice to Our Patients of Recent Privacy Incident Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is to inform our patients of an incident involving some of that information. On December 16, 2018, we learned from an…
2019 Data Breach Barometer Report Shows Massive Increase in Exposed Healthcare Records
HIPAA Journal reports: Protenus has released its 2019 Breach Barometer report: An analysis of healthcare data breaches reported in 2018. The data for the report came from Databreaches.net, which tracks data breaches reported in the media as well as breach notifications sent to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights and…
How Google Tracks Hackers
From Motherboard: …. Although Google’s own hacker hunting team is focused more on protecting Google users than selling a particular threat intelligence product, the task is essentially much the same; find the bad guys, understand what they’re doing, and let others know so users can be safer online. […] This week, CYBER host Ben Makuch talks…
‘Hackers’ Charged by U.S. Over Hundreds of Hoax Bomb Threats on Schools
Dell Cameron reports: An alleged hacker accused of sending fake bomb threats to hundreds of schools was reportedly arrested Tuesday by FBI agents in North Carolina, while an alleged accomplice, who is currently incarcerated in the U.K., now faces charges in the U.S. Timothy Dalton Vaughn, 20, is facing an 11-count federal indictment, including charges…
500px reveals 2018 breach that exposed user data
Mariella Moon reports: Photo-sharing platform 500px has revealed that it suffered a security breach that exposed its users’ data and profile information. While the company’s engineers have only just discovered the unauthorized entry, it actually happened way back on July 5th, 2018 — just a few days after the company closed its in-house Marketplace that…
A Closer Look: SEC’s Edgar Hacking Case
Craig A. Newman writes: Last month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged nine defendants with hacking into the agency’s EDGAR system – the online platform used by public companies for making their public filings – and stealing material nonpublic information to use for illegal trading purposes. While the charges are new, the insider trading…