From the hospital’s site, today: Jones Memorial Hospital is experiencing unexpected computer downtime due to a cyberattack. A limited number of our information services have been affected. However, to the best of our knowledge no patient financial or medical information has been compromised. We have been in contact with law enforcement and the New York…
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Colorado family practice notifies patients following hacking incidents
Longs Peak Family Practice, PC (“LPFP”) is notifying patients following a ransomware and hacking incident that were first detected on November 5. From their notification: LPFP immediately began investigating and took actions to attempt to secure the network, but the hacker executed malicious code within the network before it could be stopped. The malicious code…
In November, I gave thanks for fewer breach reports
Protenus has released its monthly Breach Barometer, and the statistics for November were something to be thankful for – even if they turn out to be just a brief break from the crush of breach reports we’ve seen every month. As Protenus reports, there were 28 incidents first disclosed during November. We were able to…
Encryption protected Golden Optometric patients’ EHR from CrySiS attack
It’s nice to read a notification where an entity had good defenses in place. Consider this notification from Golden Optometric in California: Early on the morning of November 6, 2017, the network server at Golden Optometric was infected with a variant of the “CrySiS” ransomware virus, which encrypted a limited number of files on its…
MN: Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine in Minneapolis warns clients of data breach
KARE reports: A Twin Cities fertility clinic is warning clients about a data security incident that may have put personal information at risk. CCRM Minneapolis, which is located in Edina, says the clinic’s servers were targeted by a ransomware attack on October 3, which triggered an investigation to determine if sensitive information had been put at…
Hackers could get even nastier in 2018: researchers
PhysOrg reports: After a year marked by devastating cyber attacks and breaches, online attackers are expected to become even more destructive in 2018, security researchers said Wednesday. A report by the security firm McAfee said the ransomware outbreaks of 2017 offer just a taste of what’s to come as hackers develop new strategies and “business…