Cheryl King reports: In a shocking incident at the Government Ariyalur Medical College Hospital, a temporary housekeeping staff has been suspended for violating patient privacy. The accused, Manikandan of Kadur in Perambalur, allegedly took a photo of a male patient who was lying unconscious and naked in the operation theatre and shared it on WhatsApp….
Stanford University Investigating “Cybersecurity Incident” (1)
Stanford University issued a statement yesterday: The security and integrity of our information systems are top priorities, and we work continually to safeguard our network. We are continuing to investigate a cybersecurity incident at the Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) to determine the extent of what may have been impacted. Based on our…
South Australian health patients caught up in data breach of third-party platform Personify Care
ABC reports: Thousands of South Australian public health patients are being contacted over a data breach of a third-party run portal. The state government said “unintentional human error” by patient portal Personify Care allowed an “unauthorised third party” to delete a folder used to store patient documents uploaded to an online platform. Department of Health…
Six months after data security incident, Fredericksburg Foot & Ankle Center notifies patients (1)
On October 24, the Fredericksburg Foot & Ankle Center (FFAC) in Virginia began mailing breach notification letters to almost 15,000 patients affected by a cyberattack. The letter’s “What Happened?” section simply stated, “As a result of a recent data security incident, an unauthorized person accessed our computer systems.” It did not mention ransomware or any…
Inadequate security measures: the Guarantor sanctions an ASL. The healthcare facility had suffered a ransomware attack
The following is a Google machine translation of a post by Italy’s data protection regulator. It strikes me yet again how entities covered by the GDPR get fined for poor or inadequate security practices that should — but generally do not — incur monetary penalties here: Sanction by the Privacy Guarantor of 30,000 euros to a…
Hackers escalate: leak 200k CCSD students’ data; claim to still have access to CCSD email system
Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada informed parents and employees that they became aware of a “cybersecurity incident” on October 5. Three weeks later, the district had not fully recovered from the attack and parents were complaining about the district’s lack of transparency about what was stolen in the breach. Disturbingly, while the district…