Domanii Cameron reports: Doctors at public and private hospitals are having to consult about their patients via Facebook and messaging apps, prompting calls for a real-time messaging platform. Rural Doctors Association of Australia president John Hall told The Sunday-Mail he had witnessed the issue first-hand while claiming it was widespread practice. Read more on Herald Sun (AU.
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TX: Threat actors dump patient files from Nocona General Hospital
On February 3, Conti threat actors added Nocona General Hospital in Texas to their leak site, posting 20 files as proof that they had accessed the hospital’s files. Many of the files contained patient records from 2018, and appeared to be pdf scans or doc files. They did not appear to be records from any…
BE: Cyber attack on Sacred Heart Hospital Mol: no patients at risk, but administration back on paper
vrtNWS reports (translation): The Sacred Heart Hospital in Mol has been hit by a cyber attack. Criminals have managed to smuggle viruses into the hospital’s IT system, presumably via email. No data has been stolen, so the patients’ medical information has not been leaked, but the viruses have shut down many systems. Read more on vrtNWS….
Patient data breaches disclosed by Nevada, Pennsylvania entities
Nevada Health Centers is notifying an unspecified number of patients after discovering an unauthorized person accessed an employee’s email account between November 20 and December 7. They do not think the motivation was to obtain ePHI as much as financial information about NHC, but with all the “potentially” kind of language, it will be hard…
CEO who lied to thousands of patients by telling them they had less than six months to live in order to enroll them in hospice sentenced to prison
There are bad breaches, and then there are the ones where words like “despicable,” “evil,” “immoral,” “disgusting,” and “reprehensible” just seem too weak to express how decent people might feel. This case out of Texas is one of those. Here is DOJ’s press release issued today: The CEO of a Texas-based group of hospice and…
Dutch COVID-19 patient data sold on the criminal underground
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministry’s COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground. The arrests came after an investigation by RTL Nieuws reporter Daniel Verlaan who discovered ads for Dutch citizen data online, advertised on instant messaging apps like Telegram, Snapchat, and Wickr. Read more…