**Updated: **first edit i made a mistake and stated that paypal was the victim of the 0 day when it was infact ZPanel. Sorry for any inconvenience or misleading information. Earlier today a well known hacker group, Hack the planet had released a Zine which contains breached information on 2 well known website image service Imageshack and…
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Illinois nursing home residents' data stolen
Associated Press reports: The personal information of 508 Illinois nursing home residents was inside a stolen briefcase, prompting the state agency overseeing Medicaid to notify the people affected by the breach. The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services announced the incident Friday. A statement from the department says the briefcase was stolen Aug. 31…
Illinois nursing home residents’ data stolen
Associated Press reports: The personal information of 508 Illinois nursing home residents was inside a stolen briefcase, prompting the state agency overseeing Medicaid to notify the people affected by the breach. The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services announced the incident Friday. A statement from the department says the briefcase was stolen Aug. 31 from the…
National Health Institute attacked again, 4000+ user credentails leaked
Hackers have once again hit that all time low with yet another attack on a healthcare based website, infact its the parent website to the attack that was carried out just a few days ago by @LulzSecEurope who attacked cancer.gov which is controled and funded by NIH. The most recent attack comes from a hacker…
What sense can we make of some statistics?
Here’s a useful example of why my eyes glaze over at times when trying to make sense of breach statistics. Tim Smith of the Greenville News recently reported: South Carolina state agencies and businesses over a three-year period reported dozens of computer security breaches that potentially could affect at least 410,000 people, a report obtained…
It's a puzzlement
Over on HIPAA, HITECH, & HIT, Michael Kline wonders why a third breach involving Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary flew under the media radar and why it hasn’t appeared on HHS’s breach tool. Both are good questions. Certainly there’s an interest in wrong-doing by insiders in the healthcare sector, and this blog has reported numerous instances…