Latest Health Data Breaches News

30K Patients Impacted in Ohio Business Associate Breach from 2019

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Ohio-based Management and Network Services (MNS) recently began notifying 30,132 patients that their data was potentially compromised after several employee email accounts were hacked for several...

Ransomware Attack on Magellan Health Results in Data Exfiltration

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Arizona-based Magellan Health is notifying an undisclosed number of its current employees that their data was compromised after threat actors first exfiltrated sensitive data, before deploying a...

Maze Ransomware Hackers Post Patient Data Stolen from 2 Providers

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The notorious Maze ransomware hacking group has failed to follow through with their assurance the healthcare sector would be off-limits during the COVID-19 pandemic, by publishing data stolen from two...

Ransomware Shuts Down Colorado Hospital IT Network Amid COVID-19

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Colorado-based Parkview Medical Center’s technology infrastructure was hit with a ransomware attack a week ago on April 21, which caused a number of IT network outages, according to local...

Beaumont Health Reports 2019 Data Breach Impacting 114K Patients

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Michigan-based Beaumont Health recently began notifying about 114,000 patients that their personal data was potentially breached after a hack on several employee email accounts in 2019. The...

Ransomware Attack on Brandywine Urology Impacts 131K Patients

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About 131,825 patients of Brandywine Urology Consultants are being notified that their data was potentially compromised during a ransomware attack. The Delaware specialist is continuing to investigate...

Another COVID-19 Research Firm Targeted by Ransomware Attack

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Hackers successfully targeted and infected California-based 10x Genomics in March, as the biotechnology research firm worked to gain insights into the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, according to a US...

140K Patients Impacted in Tandem Diabetes Care Phishing Attack

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About 140,000 patients of Tandem Diabetes Care are being notified their data was potentially compromised after several employee email accounts were compromised during a phishing attack. Tandem is a...

Hackers Target WHO, COVID-19 Research Firm with Cyberattacks

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Hacking groups are targeting healthcare in full force, with the World Health Organization and Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR), a UK-based research team on standby for developing a...

Latest Coronavirus Updates for the Healthcare Community

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Editors across the Xtelligent Healthcare Media network of sites will be providing ongoing coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on healthcare in the United States. Our team will be...

Illinois Public Health Website Hit With Ransomware Amid Coronavirus

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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

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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...

Accounting Firm Ransomware Hack Affects Community Care Patient Data

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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...

UW Medicine Hit with Lawsuit for Breach Impacting 974K Patients

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The University of Washington Medicine is facing a class-action lawsuit following its disclosure of a patient data breach that impacted 974,00 patients. According to the lawsuit filed in the King...

109K Patient Records Impacted in Overlake Medical Phishing Attack

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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%

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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...

Malware Attack Hits Boston Children’s Hospital Physician Group

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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

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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...

Malware Destroys Data of 30,000 Fondren Orthopedic Patients

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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

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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...