NHS 111 services have been targeted by cyber hackers leaving staff “working on paper” and patients told to expect delays. The system which allows call handlers to dispatch ambulances, book patients out-of-hours urgent appointments, or fulfil emergency prescriptions has crashed. The firm behind the system, Advanced, confirmed on Friday night it had lost service on a…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
BR- After 4 days offline, Tribunal de Justiça do Distrito Federal e dos Territórios website was back online August 3rd. Samara Schwingel-Isadora Teixera reported (machine-translated): The platform remains unstable due to adjustments that will be made. The Civil Police are investigating the hackers who allegedly took down the site. Read more at Metropoles. DataBreaches has…
New York DFS Fines Robinhood $30M for “Significant” Cybersecurity Violations
Linn F. Freedman of Robinson + Cole writes: The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced its first ever penalty against a cryptocurrency platform this week, with a whopping $30 million fine assessed against Robinhood Crypto, LLC (RHC) for what it described as “significant failures in the areas of bank secrecy act/anti-money laundering obligations and cybersecurity…
Malaysian minister says amendments to PDPA in the works after repeated data breached
Yiswaree Palansamy reports: Communications and Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa today said that several amendments to Act 709 of the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2010 are in the pipeline to strengthen the law, after a series of personal data breaches in the country this year. […] “For information, among the proposed amendments would…
Update: Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine ransomware incident affected 362,833 patients and employees
On June 9, DataBreaches reported that Goodman Campbell Brain & Spine in Indiana had apparently become a ransomware victim of Hive threat actors on or about May 20. The threat actors added the medical practice to their dedicated leak site on June 8 and leaked a “proofpack” that contained passwords for accounts as well as…
UK: Former health adviser found guilty of illegally accessing patient records
The Information Commissioner’s Office announced: A former health adviser has been found guilty of accessing medical records of patients without a valid legal reason. Christopher O’Brien, 36, was working at the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust when he unlawfully accessed the records of 14 patients, who were known personally to him, between June and December 2019….