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Electronic health records and systems used to order tests, procedures and medications remain unavailable at some affected hospitals.
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One of the largest healthcare systems in the United States is scrambling to contain a hack that’s causing disruption and “downtime procedures” at hospitals around the country.
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The attack on Ascension has resulted in “a disruption to clinical operations.”
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“Project Nightingale” is fully HIPAA-compliant, according to Google — but researchers said they see big red flags for consumer data privacy. Continue reading Google’s Plan to Crunch Health Data on Millions of Patients Draws Fire
Project Nightingale has been revealed as a secret Google operation to store and manipulate the healthcare data of millions of patients. Nobody consented.
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A massive store of data that includes loan agreements, payment schedules tax documents and other financial records was openly accessible on a public server until recently, according to security researcher Bob Diachenko and TechCrunch. The data, totaling about 24 million records, was being stored in an unsecured server by Ascension Data and Analytics, a company that sells various technical services to the financial industry, according to Diachenko. The researcher said he worked with TechCrunch reporter Zack Whittaker to track the data to Ascension. Diachenko wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that he notified Ascension after making the discovery on Jan. 10, and that the data was secured by Jan. 15. The report says the 51 gigabytes’ worth of data on the server consisted of individual pages of documents that were submitted by financial institutions for optical character recognition – the conversion of handwriting text into machine-readable text. Some of the documents dated as far back as 2008. Some, not all, […]
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