- Proliance Surgeons of Seattle, WA notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after a cybersecurity incident.
- Elite Primary Care, aka Dr. Peter Wrobel Clinic, of Waycross, Georgia, was ordered to pay $36,000 to settle HIPAA violation regarding failure to respond to patient’s request for their PHI.
- University of Vermont Medical Center gave more details on October ransomware attack:
- Did not pay ransom
- Attack deposited malware on all servers, 5,000 computers and laptops
- Took entire month to restore PCs and servers
- So far, 80% of the hospital’s applications have been restored
- Microsoft announced it has discovered a second hacking team dubbed “Supemova” installed a backdoor in the SolarWinds software, which impacted a minimum of 18,000 government and private sector organizations
- While original malware originated from Russia, second strain’s origin not yet determined
- SolarWinds of Austin, TX provides network-monitoring software to hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide
- Networks running SolarWinds that have been infected should “burn it to the ground and rebuild it” according to Bruce Schneier, a security expert for Security Week magazine
- Facebook paid a bounty of $13,000 to Saugat Pokharel for exposing a flaw that exposes email addresses and birthdates of customers.
- The U.S. Attorney’s office announced it had taken possession of domain names that were being used by hackers to create website that claimed to offer COVID-19 vaccines, and then steal user’s info and launched email phishing and malware attacks.
- EyeMed, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, notified 485,000 patients that are Aetna and Blue Cross insurance members, that their PHI was exposed after e-mail phishing attack.
- Rangely District Hospital of Colorado announced that after 6 months of work, it has restored all of its computers after ransomware attack in April.
- Jefferson County government of Kentucky notified an unknown number of citizens that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- City of Ellensburg government of Washington notified an unknown number of citizens that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- TennCare of Nashville, Tennessee notified 3,300 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after mailing error.
- Forward Air Trucking, headquartered in Greeneville, TN notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Premier Kids Care Inc. of Monroe, Georgia notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Uri Shaked, a security researcher, published report detailing on how he hacked into several 3D printers.
- Showed the method during his “Live Breaking into Encrypted 3D Printer” online workshop.
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