Pharmacy services provider PharMerica says hackers breached its system and stole the names, addresses, SSNs, and health data of 5.8M+ patients on March 12, 2023
Pharmacy services provider PharMerica has disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 5.8 million patients, exposing their medical data to hackers.
Despite high hopes, AI in health care hasn't been effective because medical data is more complex and scarcer than web data, causing misleading results
Tom Simonite / Wired : Tweets: @carnage4life , @pkedrosky , @carnage4life , @thiago37 , and @reema__patel Tweets: @carnage4life : Lack of large datasets for training medical AIs means it's more likel...
Researcher discloses three iOS zero-days, says they were reported to Apple before May 4 and are still exploitable in iOS 15 after Apple failed to fix them
what you need to know Mahit Huilgol / iPhone Hacks : Apple Reportedly Fails to Patch Multiple iOS 15 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities First Reported in March Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Researcher...
Over 16 million COVID-19 patients in Brazil, including President Bolsonaro, had their info leaked on a spreadsheet uploaded to GitHub by a hospital employee
Among those affected by the leak are Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, seven ministers, and 17 provincial governors. Tweets: @johnlilic , @arielbogle , @fascinatorfun , @campuscodi , and @1br0wn Tweets...
A look at the data sharing practices of therapy apps like Better Help, which notify third parties when an app is opened and if a patient has suicidal thoughts
and especially mental health data-is some of the most valuable, and controversial. (via @Jezebel) https://jezebel.com/... Laura G. Hoffman / @lgh_dc : “[As soon as we downloaded the app], Better Help ...
A look at the data sharing practices of therapy apps like Better Help, which notify third parties when an app is opened and if a patient has suicidal thoughts
Starting treatment with Better Help, one of the most prominent “therapy-on-demand” apps to launch over the last few years, is easy, which is more or less the point. Tweets: @dmehro , @dmehro , @ohthat...
Report sheds light on the various ways hackers make money from stolen medical data, from forging a doctor's identity to selling fake prescriptions and labels
Stolen medical information can sell for up to six times as much as PII, and there are reasons for that.
Report: ~2.3B files, including sensitive info like credit card and medical data, are exposed via publicly accessible online file storage servers, up 50% YoY
Digital Shadows research finds that the number of exposed files — including sensitive information — has risen by 50 percent compared with last year.
Report: US has spent $36B digitizing health records, which has risked patient safety with thousands of reports of deaths and injuries tied to software glitches
The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Tweets: @erictopol , @ldrogen , @seemacms , @laware75 , @ros...
Some popular apps send sensitive info to Facebook via the company's analytics SDK, such as a user's heart rate, intent to get pregnant, and home listings viewed
Rise of ‘Surveillance Capitalism,’ China and Iran Go Hacking, Facebook as ‘Digital Gangster’ NBC News : Use an app to track your period? That data and more could end up with Facebook, WSJ reports John...