Ben Grubb reports: A flaw in medical software used by more than 40,000 Australian health specialists and distributed by Telstra has potentially exposed Australians’ medical information to hackers, who have been logging into practitioners’ computers and servers to carry out illegal activities. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.
ID: School district reports inadvertent disclosure
This item by Dr. Michael Garrett that appeared in the Clearwater Tribune appears to concern Joint School District #171 in Idaho. At approximately 7:35 a.m. on March 19, a supervisor brought to my attention that an employee had discovered personal employee information on the district website. The information was verified in a payroll report which inadvertently…
San Diego City Attorney announces lawsuit against Experian over massive data breach
At first I thought the headline had a typo and that they meant to name Equifax, but they do, indeed, mean Experian. This suit goes back to an incident previously covered on this site that involved Experian acquiring a company, Court Ventures, that had access to another company’s, InfoSearch’s database…. and a bad actor named…
Surgeon believes hackers ‘led warplanes to Syrian hospital’ after targeting his computer after remote surgery
This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Hayley Dixon, Aisha Majid, and Steven Swinford report: A British surgeon who helped carry out operations in Aleppo fears that the hacking of his computer led to a hospital being bombed by suspected Russian warplanes. In a world first, renowned consultant David Nott gave remote instructions via…
Hospitals Are Throwing Sensitive Patient Information Out With the Recycling
Kristen V. Brown reports: …. Researchers conducted a “recycling audit” of five hospitals in Toronto between November 2014 and May 2016 and found that frequently hospitals improperly threw out sensitive patient information. All the hospitals had policies designed to get rid of confidential patient health information without potentially exposing it, along with shredders to get the…
CareMeridian notifies patients after disk goes missing in the mail
The following press release is basically identical to one provided yesterday by Georgia MENTOR. Neither Georgia MENTOR nor CareMeridian name the software provider who mailed them a disk with unencrypted documents that appears to have been lost in the mail. CareMeridian, LLC is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the…