Illinois Public Health Website Hit With Ransomware Amid Coronavirus
Hackers infected the website of Champaign-Urbana Public Health District in Illinois with NetWalker ransomware amid the Coronavirus pandemic, according to local news outlet, The News Gazette. The...Monthlong Cyberattack Disrupts Operations at UKentucky Health
The University of Kentucky (UK) and UK Healthcare have been working to remove cryptocurrency malware from its network after a February cyberattack. The malware caused significant network issues and...Walgreens Reports Data Breach from Personal Mobile Messaging App Error
Walgreens announced on Friday that it inadvertently exposed the personal messages stored on its messaging app due to an internal error. On January 15, officials said they first discovered an error in...Accounting Firm Ransomware Hack Affects Community Care Patient Data
New York-based accounting firm BST was recently infected with Maze malware, which potentially compromised patient data from Community Care Physicians. According to the notification, BST fell victim to...109K Patient Records Impacted in Overlake Medical Phishing Attack
Overlake Medical Center and Clinics in Washington is notifying about 109,000 patients that some of their health information was potentially compromised during a phishing attack. On December 9,...Over 41.4M Patient Records Breached in 2019, as Hacking Jumped 49%
More than 41.4 million patient records were breached by 572 healthcare data breaches in 2019, as hacking surged. And it’s likely those estimates are vastly underestimated given two significant...Hackensack Meridian Faces Breach Lawsuit After Ransomware Attack
Hackensack Meridian Health, one of the largest health systems in New Jersey, is facing a class-action lawsuit, following a ransomware attack that drove the provider offline for several days in...Ransomware Attacks Cost Healthcare Sector At Least $160M Since 2016
More than 1,500 healthcare organizations have been hit with successful ransomware attacks since 2016, costing the sector over $160 million during that time, according to a recent report from...Malware Attack Hits Boston Children’s Hospital Physician Group
The Pediatric Physician’s Organization at Children’s (PPOC) is recovering from a large system outage, which is affecting the more than 500 primary care doctors, nurse practitioners, and...Computer Theft Exposes Personal, Health Data of 654K Oregon Patients
Health Share of Oregon, the state’s largest Medicaid coordinated care organization is notifying 654,000 patients that their personal and health data has been exposed after a laptop was stolen...Maze Ransomware Hackers Extorting Providers, Posting Stolen Health Data
Recent reports have shown the hacking group behind Maze ransomware has been steadily posting the data of its victims online after the organizations fail to pay the ransom demand. A compiled list of...Malware Destroys Data of 30,000 Fondren Orthopedic Patients
Texas-based Fondren Orthopedic Group is notifying 30,049 that their data was destroyed after a malware incident in November. On November 21, a malware incident damaged some medical records stored in...Health Data, Medical Documents Exposed by LabCorp Website Error
An error in an internal customer relationship management system website of LabCorp left the health data and medical documents of thousands of patients exposed online, according to...More Health Quest Patients Added to 2018 Phishing Attack Victims
New York-based Health Quest recently began another round of breach notification letters, after discovering more patient data than initially estimated was compromised during a 2018 phishing...Hackers Demand Ransom From Patients After Breaching Florida Clinic
Current and former patients of Richard Davis, MD, who operates The Center for Facial Restoration, have received ransom demands from a cybercriminal who hacked the clinic's server. Other providers...LifeLabs Hit With Several Lawsuits Over Data Breach of 15M Patients
LifeLabs is potentially facing a class-action lawsuit after a several civil lawsuits were filed against the testing giant in a British Columbia Court, following reports that the data of 15 million...Georgia Revives Patient Breach Lawsuit Against Athens Orthopedic
The Supreme Court of Georgia has revived a patient data breach lawsuit against Athens Orthopedic Clinic, by unanimously reversing a Court of Appeals decision to dismiss the case. In July 2016, Athens...New Mexico Hospital Finds Malware Infection on Digital Imaging Server
New Mexico-based Roosevelt General Hospital discovered malware on the digital imaging server of its radiology department, which possibly allowed hackers to view the digital medical images of about 500...Sponsored by SailPoint
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