So I had missed this item from the Journal Star on March 8th: The Illinois Valley Podiatry Group, 3322 W. Willow Knolls Drive, has announced that it has became aware of unauthorized access to its computer records, believed to have taken place last year. The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of patients may have…
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Hackers Seek Ransom From Two More California Hospitals
Chad Terhune reports: Hackers demanded a ransom from two more Southern California hospitals last week and federal authorities are investigating the case. Prime Healthcare Services Inc., a fast-growing national hospital chain, said the attackers infiltrated computer servers on Friday at two of its California hospitals, Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino and Desert Valley Hospital…
KY: Ransomware incident at Methodist Hospital in Henderson (update2)
On March 15, Jessica Gavin reported: A cyber security breach, striking Methodist Hospital in Henderson. We’re learning the FBI is investigating this right now, but there’s some good news. [….] David Park, COO of Methodist, tells 14 NEWS the hackers have copied patients records and locked those copies. They’ve deleted the originals. “We’ve notified the FBI,…
Shared Passwords Almost Cost The Bank Of Uganda 24 Million Dollars
Eric Mugendi reports: Unknown individuals have made four attempts to illegally transfer US$24 million (UGX81 billion) from the Bank of Uganda to accounts located outside the country. Officials within the Government of Uganda are believed to have shared passwords with tech-savvy individuals who then logged in to the financial management system and targeted the accounts of the…
Yet more phishing-based compromises involving W-2 tax statement data (Update-24)
(Note: the following is not a complete list… it’s just a list I started after the first few posts on this topic suggested that there would be a lot more. See the “phishing” category of this site for earlier entries this year.) Reports continue to come in to state attorneys general involving the successful spear phishing…
Stolen laptop with patient info returned; no evidence ever powered on
Wow. You don’t see this type of thing too often. Premier Healthcare has an important update to their breach notification of March 3 that affected 206,000 patients. From their statement today: Missing Premier Healthcare Laptop Recovered Last week, Premier Healthcare, LLC, a Bloomington, Indiana, based physician-led multispecialty healthcare provider group, reported that a laptop computer had been…