Catholic Charities of Baltimore issued a press release today after an employee’s email account was hacked and personal and protected health information of the charity’s clients may have been accessed or acquired. The press release does not indicate how many people they are notifying. Nor does it indicate how the hack occurred – did the…
MD: Complete Wellness notifies 600 patients after employee misconduct results in lost PHI
On January 9, Complete Wellness, a treatment center in Baltimore for those with mental health issues or substance abuse, posted a Warning of Potential Privacy Violation on their web site. The warning described an incident in which an employee – without authorization – copied patient files to a flash drive, and the flash drive was…
Former Eastern Health employee charged in privacy breach
James McLeod reports: A former employee of Eastern Health alleged to have improperly accessed the personal health information of a number of patients has been charged under the province’s Personal Health Information Act. The charges were announced today by Information and Privacy Commissioner Donovan Molloy. The first appearance on the matter is set for Feb….
Cyber extortion – legality of ransom payments and the approach of businesses and insurers
Sami Paracha of Taylor Wessing has an article on cyber-extortion and ransom demands from a UK perspective. It makes for interesting reading. The article begins: Cyber Security is an omnipresent risk for most businesses. And it is a growing risk given the more frequent and serious cyber attacks, higher costs for proactively managing these risks…
Rsync errors lead to data leak at Canadian ISP, KWIC Internet
Steve Ragan reports on a leak first uncovered by Chris Vickery of MacKeeper Security Research Center. Kudos to Steve for ensuring that notification was made so that the files got secured, even though it’s not yet clear for how long they were exposed and whether others may have accessed them. Steve writes: Misconfigured Rsync instances…
Clash of Clans Forums Accounts Have Been Hacked
Costea Lestoc reports: It seems that Supercell, the creator of Clash of Clans, has suffered a major security breach. It has been revealed that the company has revealed that during an attack on its member forums, over a million user accounts were compromised. In other words, some hackers have now over a million accounts usernames,…