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  • 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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