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[Tanaphum Wichaita]

Case study 1: Hackers target medical software Power Diary clients for spam email send

Provide a brief description of the story.
– Power Diary, a medical software company, had a security issue where hackers accessed its email system and sent spam emails to patients of healthcare providers using the platform. These emails looked legitimate, including patient names, and encouraged recipients to click a link for a fake prize involving NFTs and cryptocurrencies. The company is investigating and working to fix the issue, assuring that no sensitive data was compromised.

What is/are the impact of this data breach? Consequences of the data breach.
– no personal data was accessed, the breach caused concerns about trust and security.
The spam emails could confuse or mislead patients.

How did the data breach occur?
– An unauthorized party was able to exploit a vulnerability in our email-sending system, which allowed them to send bulk emails that appeared to originate from your practice. The system’s template feature was used to insert patient email addresses, names and other details after the emails were triggered.

What should be the main cause of the data breach?
– This breach appears to be due to system vulnerabilities within the email-sending feature of Power Diary.

How could you prevent this data breach attack?
– Review and update security protocols to patch vulnerabilities.
– Security testing, penetration testing or simulated attacks to find vulnerabilities.
– Train employees to recognize phishing attempts.

ref.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-26/power-diary-hack-email-system-compromised/104270190
https://support.powerdiary.com/power-diary-addresses-unauthorized-email-activity
https://support.powerdiary.com/issue-email-sending-2024-aug-25

[Aung Thura Htoo]

Hello Tanaphum Wichaita, thank you for your explanations of the incident at Power Diary. Yes, I believe training staff about digital security is one of the most important aspect in this incident. Like you said, training how to recognize an attack would prevent this incident. Additionally, having a disaster management plan would be a great idea to prevent and resolve the matter in a fast manner.

[Wannisa Wongkamchan]

They could add a few more things to stop attacks. They could use better email filters to catch spam. Also, they should check who can send emails more carefully. Lastly, they could educate patients how to spot fake emails. These steps might help keep everyone safer when using the system.

[Aye Thinzar Oo]

Thank you for sharing brief information about the Power Diary attack. Perfectly, the hacker can’t access the personal data of the patients. So, it didn’t impact much on the Power Diary.
Spam email is not only important to the company but also to individual email affected.
All of us should have digital security knowledge and need training for all.

[Siriluk Dungdawadueng]

Hello Tanaphum, your report provides helpful suggestions for preventing attacks and brief information about the Power Diary attack. To prevent unauthorized parties from sending emails that appear to originate from your site, it may be helpful to implement comprehensive logging and monitoring of system activity. This can assist in the real-time detection of suspicious behavior and the prompt response to any potential breaches.

[Alex Zayar Phyo Aung]

Awarenees raising on phishing and scamming, training on digital security will help to improve digital security literacy of the employees as you mentioned. In addition to this, regular vulnerability assessement of the system and risk migitaion plan development should also be institutionalized as a prevent measure.

[Saranath]

A good example on how system vulnerability can impact on the reputation of the organization. Thanks Tanaphum and everyone for a good discussion.

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