PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Tandigm Health (Tandigm), a value-based healthcare company that supports health plans by collaborating with primary care physicians to enhance and improve patient care, announced today that it is sending letters to patients about a recent security incident involving patient information. On September 25, 2018, Tandigm discovered a potential vulnerability in…
Valley Health sending letters to 857 patients possibly affected by security breach
Valley Health is one of those affected by the recently disclosed Inova Health System breach. You can read a report on the Valley Health aspect on Winchester Star.
FL: Key Dental Group notifies patients because former EMR vendor will not return patient database
The following is not your typical breach notification. It relates to a situation in which a business associate allegedly refuses to return the patient database despite its EULA and HIPAA obligation. The press release does not indicate whether the covered entity, Key Dental Group, is suing its former vendor to recover the database. Nor does…
Ukrainian police arrest hacker who infected over 2,000 users with DarkComet RAT
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ukrainian police have arrested a 42-old-man on charges of infecting over 2,000 users across 50 countries with the DarkComet remote access trojan (RAT). The man was arrested this week after police executed a search warrant at his residence in the city of Lviv, in Western Ukraine. Read more on ZDNet.
Another ‘decision makers’ database leaked
Depressingly, Bob Diachenko of Hackenproof writes: These days it’s quite easy for an ordinary person to get the contact details of any business or organization for a certain fee or subscription. However, should seemingly non-sensitive data be so easily available? 123GB of personal data exposed On November 5th, we discovered an open and unprotected MongoDB…
German flirting network gets fined 20,000€ for leaking user information
Nicole Lorenz reports Knuddels.de is a German flirting / chatting / social media channel. The network was hacked back in September and around 808,000 email addresses as well as 1,872,000 pseudonyms and passwords were leaked as a result. Now a couple of months later a German court decided that the company would have to pay…