Here we go again, another 4.8m people pilfered

As we approach the end of the holiday season, we are yet still talking about the same shit as it comes to health care breaches.

This comes from the latest edition of the Malwarebytes newsletter and is titled 4.8 million healthcare records left freely accessible which may need to be read if you are especially in the country of Canada.

Care1 is a software company.

Care1 Canada provides software tools that “take patient care to the next level.”

Instead of identifying Canadians by their SSN like they do here in the U.S., they use a personal health number or PHN. This is what I think we aught to be using, although it would not stop people from hacking but could make it harder for them to capture data. But the problem with this breach is that they took that as well as possibly the SSN as well.

The information Jeremiah found included eye exam results, which detailed patient PII, doctor’s comments, and images of the exam results. The database also contained lists of patients which included their home addresses, Personal Health Numbers (PHN), and details regarding their health.

An S3 bucket is like a virtual drive, similar to Dropbox or Google Drive.

An S3 bucket is like a virtual file folder in the cloud where you can store various types of data, such as text files, images, videos, and more. There is no limit to the amount of data you can store in an S3 bucket, and individual instances can be up to 5 TB in size.

Please read the entire article, as it covers this more in debt and I’m pulling the most important things out of this without copying every single paragraph.

Have fun!