Kaiser Permanente suffered a data breach due to email compromise on April 5 that potentially exposed the medical records of nearly 70,000 patients, the company revealed earlier this month. Attackers gained access to the emails of an employee at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington that contained “protected health information,” the company revealed in a […]
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a server belonging to a small medical business located in Australia’s Gold Coast has been hacked, had its patient records encrypted, and held ransom for $4000. Image source: Google The Australian edition of SC Magazine reported on similar hacks earlier this year. This strikes us as an interesting […]
It’s a story which has the potential to make the scandal over the hacking of celebrities’ mobile phone voicemails seem like small potatoes. BBC Radio 4 has broadcast a documentary claiming that computer hackers were used by the British press to spy on politicians and the military. According to the programme, the illicit mining of […]
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