Theresa Defino reports: Compared to other agencies, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a little fish in the big federal pond, but it has an outsize effect on HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs). And, if Congress agrees, its impact would expand significantly in the coming months. As part of its…
Sheffield nurse Paul Grayson sentenced to 12 years for covert filming of hospital patients and staff
A nurse who “grotesquely breached” his position of trust when he covertly made indecent videos of staff and patients at a hospital in Sheffield has been jailed. Some of Paul Grayson’s victims were unconscious and recovery after surgery when he filmed up their gowns at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. He also installed cameras in the hospital toilets…
Omnicell reveals ransomware incident in SEC filing
From their May 9 10-Q filing: Our IT systems and third-party cloud services are potentially vulnerable to cyber-attacks, including ransomware, or other data security incidents, by employees or others, which may expose sensitive data to unauthorized persons. On May 4, 2022, we determined that certain of our information technology systems were affected by ransomware impacting…
NZ: Data breach on AA Traveller website
RNZ reports: AA Traveller said the website was in use between 2003 and 2018 and allowed customers to make travel bookings, enter competitions and take part in surveys. In a statement on its website AA Traveller said it “recently discovered a vulnerability in the application where the AA Traveller information was stored and that an…
Hackers are now hiding malware in Windows Event Logs
Ionut Ilascu reports: Security researchers have noticed a malicious campaign that used Windows event logs to store malware, a technique that has not been previously documented publicly for attacks in the wild. The method enabled the threat actor behind the attack to plant fileless malware in the file system in an attack filled with techniques…
IL: Quincy facing one of the ‘worst cyber attacks’ to ever hit the community
Rebecca Duffy reports: The city of Quincy is dealing with what the mayor calls one of the worst cyber attacks to ever hit the community, and they still don’t know how it happened. Mayor Mike Troup said around 7:30 Saturday morning the city of Quincy was got hit by a cyber attack. “This probably is…