Sanjay Talwani reports: A woman who went to St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena after an alleged a rape is suing the hospital and a pharmacist, saying they violated her medical privacy. The woman told authorities last year she was raped by Andrew Stevick back in January 2015. He’s admitted to criminal endangerment in the case and…
Security of mobile health apps: it’s as bad as we thought
It’s a topic I’ve covered on this site before, and even though I generally don’t include infographics from commercial entities on this site, Arxan has one on the security of mobile health apps that is important to note. With their kind permission, I am reproducing it below. You can access the corresponding report on healthcare…
Ca: Children’s Aid Society exposes sensitive information to a woman’s business partner
The Hamilton Spectator reports on one of those cases that doesn’t affect a lot of people, but has a significant effect for the individual who was affected: The Hamilton Children’s Aid Society is apologizing to a city woman for mistakenly disclosing confidential information about her to her business partner. Ayla Smith, 28, says the breach…
UK: Hospital trust rapped after it lost birth records and sent sensitive medical data to wrong person
Croydon Advertiser reports: Croydon’s hospital trust mistakenly sent a patient’s sensitive medical information to the wrong person. And while being investigated for that data breach, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust “misplaced” its register of births for April 2009 to May 2010 for five months. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has rapped the trust for the…
JB Autosports customers notified of payment card breach
Jeremy Boysen, President of JB Autosports, Inc is notifying customers who used the subispeed.com and ft86speedfactory.com sites between August 1, 2015 through November 9, 2015, that their payment card data was intercepted during transmission and acquired by an unknown party at a Russian IP address. The breach allowed cyberattackers to intercept customer names, addresses, credit…
Details of 18000 Faithless fans have been stolen in a website hack
Patrick Hinton reports: 18,000 Faithless fans have had their personal details stolen after the dance group’s website was subject to a cyber-attack from hackers. The site’s defences were breached after a piece of malware was uploaded using a technique called an SQL injection, and now the illegally acquired data, including users’ personal e-mail addresses and…