Ascension Health on Dec. 19 started sending out letters to the 5.6 million patients who were affected by a ransomware attack that was originally detected last May. When news of the cybersecurity incident broke last spring there were reports that numerous hospitals in the Ascension network lost access to their electronic health records systems, certain … Read more
Press release on 11 Dec 24 Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn visited Williamsport to celebrate a $649,900 grant to Lycoming County that supports Phase 1 of the development of the Susquehanna River Walk Extension and spotlight the Shapiro Administration’s significant investment in trails across Pennsylvania. “When we invest in trails, we are really investing … Read more
A 72-year old man who smoked cigarettes for 55 years starting when he was 10-years old and suffered two bouts of cancer has won a $20.7 million verdict in a case against tobacco companies. A jury in Massachusetts Superior Court for Middlesex County found that cigarettes made by R.J. Reynolds and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco … Read more
A security researcher has blamed misconfigured implementations of Microsoft Power Pages for a slew of data breaches from web portals – including the leak of 1.1 million NHS employee records. It’s the latest discovery by Dublin-based security researcher Aaron Costello, who previously discovered the health and personal details of over a million citizens had been … Read more
A jury has awarded the city of Baltimore $266 million in damages in its suit against pharmaceutical firms McKesson and AmerisourceBergen for their part in the city’s opioid epidemic. With the jury award, the city has notched another win for its strategy of opting out of a national opioid settlement and pursuing opioid cases on … Read more
