Jeremiah Fowler of Security Discovery tackles a common problem researchers and journalists experience all too frequently: There is a growing trend among organizations and companies to simply deny that live production data is real. As a security researcher I often hear that everyone is a small start-up and all data is test data, or...
Brad Kellar of the Herald-Banner reports: The Hunt Memorial Hospital District released an update regarding a criminal cyber attack which was discovered against the district earlier this year, warning more of the district’s patients may have been impacted. According to the release, the cyber attack occurred in May 2018 “during which hackers gained...
Okay, this is a bit different as far as breaches go. Anita Merritt reports: A Devon hospital has apologised after a caller’s voicemail, containing personal patient details, became the hospital’s answerphone message for more than seven hours. During that time the caller was inundated with calls from patients giving details about their health problems...
Nathaniel Lash reports: A public-data tool built by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to track the prevalence of hepatitis infections left individuals’ health records accessible, compromising the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and intimate health records of thousands of people receiving medical care in Philadelphia. The department learned of the breach Friday when...
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