by Gary Pritts | Jun 23, 2014 | HIPAA
An employee at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego inadvertently emailed a spreadsheet containing the protected health information of more than 14,000 patients to a handful of job applicants on June 6th, 2014. The investigation of this breach uncovered a... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jun 4, 2014 | HIPAA
A computer in Montana’s Department of Public Health that stored large databases of employee and client personal information was accessed by unknown hacker (or hackers) through the Internet. The unauthorized intrusion was discovered earlier this month and the... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 23, 2014 | HIPAA
eBay has asked 150 million users worldwide to reset their passwords, after learning of a cyber-attack on a database including encrypted passwords and other user data. Initially, eBay provided few details about the actual attack, which is under investigation by the FBI... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 20, 2014 | HIPAA
A tax fraud gang appears to be targeting a large number of healthcare and senior living organizations that all use the same vendor for payroll and HR services. KrebsOnSecurity previously covered this gang’s criminal activity in April, when they encountered a... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 19, 2014 | HIPAA
On February 11, 2014, Centura Health, the nonprofit umbrella that owns Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colorado, experienced a phishing attack on employees that resulted in a breach of privacy that left the personal information of about 1,000 patients... Read More