San Juan Regional Medical Center has lately informed thousands of its patients regarding a security breach that took place in the fall of 2020. The medical center in Farmington, NM uncovered that an unauthorized person accessed its network on September 8, 2020. Quick action was undertaken to avert further unauthorized access and an inquiry was …
Many U.S. employers have put in place a policy that calls for their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, which includes a number of big healthcare systems and hospitals. These policies are consistent with the guidance released by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last month, which affirmed that U.S. companies are within their rights …
Federal Judge Dismissed Houston Hospital Employees’ Lawsuit over Vaccine Mandate Read More »
Hillrom medical device management tools had been discovered to have two medium severity vulnerabilities that could cause the leakage of sensitive information, corruption of information, and execution of remote code. CVE-2021-27410 is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could permit an attacker to bring about memory corruption and remote execution of arbitrary code. Although remote code …
Vulnerabilities Discovered in Hillrom Medical Device Management Tools Read More »
Stephen Yackey of Securifera discovered five vulnerabilities in the AmegaView continuous monitoring system of MesaLabs, which is employed in hospital labs, forensics laboratories, and biotech companies. Two vulnerabilities are categorized as critical command injection vulnerabilities assigned with CVSS severity scores of 9.9 and 10 out of 10. The vulnerabilities impact AmegaView Versions 3.0 and earlier …
Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in MesaLabs Lab Temperature Monitoring System Read More »
A Michigan male has confessed to hacking into the human resource data storage of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center from 2013 to 2014 and thieving 65,000 UPMC employees’ personally identifiable information (PII) and W-2 information. Justin Sean Johnson, 30 years of age, of Detroit, MI, was a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) IT expert …
Michigan Guy Pleads Guilty to Stealing And Selling of PII of UPMC Staff Read More »
SEIU 775 Benefits Group in Washington has informed around 140,000 of its members regarding the exposure of some of their protected health information (PHI). Around April 4, 2020, SEIU 775 Benefits Group’s IT team discovered anomalous activity inside the group’s data systems, including the evident deletion of selected data files. Third-party digital forensics specialists were …
The Pennsylvania Department of Health along with its COVID-19 contact tracing vendor are being sued due to a breach of the personal and health information of 72,000 Pennsylvanians. Insight Global and the Department of Health reported the breach in question on April 29, 2021. The IT service management and staffing company Insight Global got awarded …
Pennsylvania Department of Health and Insight Global Sued over 72,000-Record Data Breach Read More »
Lawmakers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are asking for a data breach to be investigated. The incident pertains to the contact tracing information of 72,000 Pennsylvanians which includes sensitive data that was distributed through unauthorized routes without the required security measures. Insight Global is a company located in Atlanta that has been supporting the Commonwealth …
A joint cybersecurity notice was given by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) concerning the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service or SVR’s continuing cyber campaigns. The alert gives additional data regarding the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by SVR threat actors …
Guidelines for Network Defenders to Discover and Prevent Russian Cyber Operations Read More »
Total Health Care Inc., a health plan based in Detroit, MI, found out that unauthorized people have acquired access to a number of staff email accounts that held sensitive personal data of health plan members and partner doctors. Upon knowing about the breach, the email accounts were secured without delay to avert even further unauthorized …
Data Breaches at Total Health Care Inc and Harrington Physician Services Read More »
