Latest Health Services news

Cerebral to pay $7 million settlement in Facebook pixel data leak case

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with telehealth firm Cerebral in which the company will pay $7,000,000 over allegations of mishandling people's sensitive health data.
- Bill Toulas
- April 16, 2024
- 05:37 PM
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Data breach at healthcare tech firm impacts 4.5 million patients

HealthEC LLC, a provider of health management solutions, suffered a data breach that impacts close to 4.5 million individuals who received care through one of the company's customers.
- Bill Toulas
- January 03, 2024
- 11:23 AM
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Welltok data breach exposes data of 8.5 million US patients

Healthcare SaaS provider Welltok is warning that a data breach exposed the personal data of nearly 8.5 million patients in the U.S. after a file transfer program used by the company was hacked in a data theft attack.
- Bill Toulas
- November 22, 2023
- 01:22 PM
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Costa Rica’s public health agency hit by Hive ransomware

All computer systems on the network of Costa Rica's public health service (known as Costa Rican Social Security Fund or CCCS) are now offline following a Hive ransomware attack that hit them this morning.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 31, 2022
- 01:34 PM
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United Health Centers ransomware attack claimed by Vice Society

California-based United Health Centers suffered a ransomware attack that reportedly disrupted all of their locations and resulted in patient data theft.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 24, 2021
- 05:10 PM
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Hive ransomware attacks Memorial Health System, steals patient data

In what appears to be an attack from the Hive ransomware gang, computers of the non-profit Memorial Health System have been encrypted, forcing staff to work with paper charts.
- Ionut Ilascu
- August 16, 2021
- 07:06 PM
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UC San Diego Health discloses data breach after phishing attack

UC San Diego Health, the academic health system of the University of California, San Diego, has disclosed a data breach after the compromise of some employees' email accounts.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 27, 2021
- 04:06 PM
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Conti ransomware also targeted Ireland's Department of Health

The Conti ransomware gang failed to encrypt the systems of Ireland's Department of Health (DoH) despite breaching its network and dropping Cobalt Strike beacons to deploy their malware across the network.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 17, 2021
- 06:13 PM
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Irish healthcare shuts down IT systems after Conti ransomware attack

Ireland's Health Service Executive(HSE), the country's publicly funded healthcare system, has shut down all IT systems after its network was breached in a ransomware attack.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 14, 2021
- 07:44 AM
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Universal Health Services lost $67 million due to Ryuk ransomware attack

Universal Health Services (UHS) said that the Ryuk ransomware attack it suffered during September 2020 had an estimated impact of $67 million.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 01, 2021
- 12:34 PM
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Ransomware hits largest US fertility network, patient data stolen

US Fertility, the largest network of fertility centers in the U.S., says that some of its systems were encrypted in a ransomware attack that affected the company two months ago, in September 2020.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 26, 2020
- 11:26 AM
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Interpol: Ransomware attacks on hospitals are increasing

The INTERPOL (short for International Criminal Police Organisation) warns that cybercriminals are increasingly attempting to lockout hospitals out of critical systems by attempting to deploy ransomware on their networks despite the currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 06, 2020
- 11:39 AM
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Criminals Pull Hard Before Xmas, Attack U.S. Health Industry

Attackers are taking no breaks and actually pull harder before holidays, as shown by a San Antonio mental health services provider and a New Mexico hospital impacted by malware attacks according to reports and disclosures published before Christmas.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 27, 2019
- 05:41 PM
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Phishing Incident Exposes Medical, Personal Info of 60K Patients

Community-based healthcare system Methodist Hospitals from Gary, Indiana, disclosed that sensitive personal and medical information of 68,039 individuals may have been exposed following a successful phishing attack against two of its employees.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 09, 2019
- 06:18 PM
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U.S Indicts Chinese Hackers for Anthem Data Breach

The U.S. Department of Justice has formally charged two members of a hacking group operating in China for illegally accessing computer systems of health insurer Anthem and stealing personally identifiable information (PII) of 78.8 million people.
- Ionut Ilascu
- May 09, 2019
- 08:05 PM
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2.7 Million Health-Related Calls, Sensitive Info Exposed for Six Years

A server used to store real-time recordings of phone calls made to the 1177 Swedish Healthcare Guide service for health care information was found completely exposed to the Internet, with no user or password to protect it.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 18, 2019
- 10:33 AM
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Hackers Can Falsify Patient Vitals

Hackers can falsify patients' vitals by emulating data sent from medical equipment clients to central monitoring systems, a McAfee security researcher revealed over the weekend at the DEF CON 26 security conference.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- August 14, 2018
- 06:46 AM
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Cass Regional Medical Center Hit With Unidentified Ransomware

Cass Regional Medical Center, a Missouri health care center, announced on their Facebook page that they have been affected by an undisclosed ransomware. This incident affected their internal communications system and their electronic health record (EHR) system.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 10, 2018
- 03:45 PM
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