Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 12. Privacy Briefs: December 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 12 (December 10, 2020) - Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks as the company races to deploy its COVID-19 vaccine, Reuters reported. The hackers posed as recruiters on networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers, Reuters’ sources said. They then sent documents purporting to be job descriptions that were laced with malicious code. The...
By: Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)