What does it say when a HIPAA lawyer with years of experience says he didn’t know the FTC has a health breach notification rule? Seen on Jeff Drummond’s blog: ” The U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement this week confirming that connected devices and health apps that use or collect consumers’ health information must notify users…
KY: Hacked student email threatens high school
Maddie McQueen reports: Late Sunday night, Fleming County High School had quite the scare when students and parents reported seeing an email and social media posts threatening a school shooting, said to happen on Monday. […] Police say the hacker is a 14-year-old girl at the school, however, police determined the threat wouldn’t be acted…
MN: Mankato Clinic notifies patients of health data breach
Mitch Keegan reports: The Mankato Clinic has notified more than 500 patients of a breach of unsecured protected health information. In a news release, Mankato Clinic says on August 3rd an electronic spreadsheet containing patient information for 535 patients was mistakenly e-mailed to a colleague of a Mankato Clinic employee to an external e-mail account. The e-mail…
Tempe nurse assistant stole patient identities to open bank accounts, lease apartments, police say
12News reports: A Tempe nurse assistant is accused of stealing the identities of her patients to lease apartments and purchase expensive vehicles. Sierra Johnson, 24, is facing several criminal charges after investigators connected her to several cases of fraud and identity theft throughout the Valley. Johnson worked at various rehabilitation facilities in Mesa, Goodyear, Phoenix,…
City of Mount Vernon Government Stops Attempted Cyber Attack-Hack
The City of Mount Vernon has apparently dodged a bullet, when a cyber attack was quickly confined. Here is the statement from Mayor Shawyn Patterson. “Last Friday, the City of Mount Vernon was subject to an attempted cyber-attack which targeted the City’s internal email and cloud storage systems. The isolated breach was quickly confined thanks…
U.S. to Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions
Well, this is not exactly what I suggested yesterday on Twitter as a strategy (I suggested that every ransomware group that hits the medical sector should be declared a terrorist organization and put on the Treasury’s sanctioned list), but it could help. Ian Talley and Dustin Volz report: The Biden administration is preparing an array…