Latest Health Data Breaches News

Patient Data from Multiple Providers Leaked in Third-Party GitHub Incident

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The patient data from multiple providers appears to have been captured and subsequently leaked on the data repository GitHub Arctic Code Vault by third-party vendor MedData, according to a new...

PACS Vulnerability of Orthopedic Specialist Exposes Data From 28K

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Mendelson Kornblum Orthopedic and Spine Specialists recently notified more than 28,000 patients that their data was exposed due to a vulnerability in its Picture Archiving and Communication Systems...

Amazon Sued for Hosting Florida Provider’s Stolen Healthcare Data

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SalusCare, on behalf of its patients, has sued an unnamed hacker and Amazon Web Services. According to the lawsuit, AWS is hosting healthcare data allegedly stolen from the Florida mental...

Ransomware Extortion Threat Actors Post Data from 4 Healthcare Entities

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In the last few weeks, the ransomware hackers behind Conti, Babuk, and Avaddon leaked data they claim to have stolen from at least five healthcare entities, which should serve as a warning to the...

Data of 50K PACE Program Patients Stolen from PeakTPA Cloud Servers

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Healthcare business associate Peak TPA is notifying 50,000 PACE program patients that their data was stolen from two of its cloud servers by an attacker. The third-party administrator supports claims...

Trillium, SIU Medicine Added to Tally of Accellion FTA Breach Victims

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Trillium Community Health Plan and the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine recently reported some of their patient data was involved in the exploit of Accellion’s File Transfer...

Over 300K Patients Affected by Elara Caring, Woodcreek Provider Breaches

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Woodcreek Provider Services and Elara Caring recently reported healthcare data breaches impacting more than 300,000 patients. The tallies are some of the largest reported in the healthcare sector...

100K Patients Impacted by Cochise Eye and Laser Ransomware Attack

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Arizona-based Cochise Eye and Laser recently notified 100,000 patients that their data was potentially compromised or deleted after a ransomware attack on January 13. The provider operates three sites...

FBI Finds Data of 79K Gore Medical Patients from 2017 Data Theft

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Georgia-based Gore Medical Management, doing business as Family Medical Center, recently notified 79,100 patients that the FBI discovered some of their data on a third-party computer. The FBI alerted...

Hospital Recovers from Ransomware; Vendor Incidents Hit Kroger, Provider

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In the last few days, three healthcare-related entities reported data breaches or system outages due to ransomware. Kroger informed patients it was part of the massive Accellion data breach, and...

Sutter Buttes Imaging PACS Vulnerability Causes 18 Month Data Breach

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Sutter Buttes Imaging (SBI) is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that their data was compromised for 18 months, due to a leak caused by a vulnerability in its third-party IT...

Ransomware Actors Leak Data From 3 More Healthcare-Related Entities

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The treat actors behind Avaddon, Conti, and REvil ransomware have yet again leaked more data from healthcare-related entities. The latest data dumps include troves of health information allegedly...

219K Nebraska Medicine Patients Affected by Fall Ransomware Attack

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A ransomware attack that struck Nebraska Medicine in the Fall potentially led to the data theft and compromise of information from 219,000 patients. The September security incident spurred...

Actor Exploits Beaumont Health’s COVID-19 Vaccine Scheduling Tool

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Michigan-based Beaumont Health was forced to shut down its tool for scheduling COVID-19 vaccine appointments over the weekend, after an unauthorized actor exploited a flaw in the Epic platform. The...

Judge Dismisses Brandywine Urology Breach Lawsuit, Citing Lack of Harm

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A healthcare data breach lawsuit against Brandywine Urology Consultants has been dismissed by the Delaware Superior Court, as the victims failed to provide evidence of injuries or losses caused by the...

Cyberattack Drives Okanogan County Public Health IT System Offline

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A cyberattack on Washington’s Okanogan County government computer infrastructure has driven multiple regional offices offline, including the Public Health department, according to a news...

Patient Sues Rady Children’s Hospital Over Blackbaud Data Breach

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A guardian of a patient whose information was included in last year's Blackbaud data breach has sued Rady Children’s Hospital over the incident. Blackbaud is a third-party vendor of the...

COVID-19 Vaccine Data Manipulated Before Leak to Impair Public Trust

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The hackers who stole COVID-19 vaccine data belonging to Pfizer and BioNTech from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a regulatory agency, and leaked the information online in December,...

Hackers Leak COVID-19 Vaccine Data Stolen During EU Regulator Breach

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The European Medicines Agency discovered hackers have posted online the COVID-19 vaccine data exfiltrated during an earlier cyberattack on the EU regulator. As previously reported, the hacked server...

Minnesota’s Lake Region Healthcare Recovering From Ransomware Attack

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Lake Region Healthcare (LRH) was hit with a ransomware attack a few days before Christmas, resulting in some computer system outages and disrupting certain operations. The Minnesota health system is...