Tag: Healthcare

A data breach last year at Central Maine Healthcare (CMH) exposed sensitive information of more than 145,000 individuals. The hackers persisted on the organization’s systems for more than two months last year, between March 19 and June 1, when CMH discovered the intrusion. The CMH integrated healthcare delivery system serves at least 400,000 people and manages hospitals like Central Maine Medical Center […]

Belgian hospital AZ Monica was forced to shut down all servers, cancel scheduled procedures, and transfer critical patients earlier today due to a cyberattack. The hospital, which operates campuses in Antwerp and Deurne, disconnected all servers at 6:32 AM after its systems were hit. The cyberattack also forced the hospital to suspend all scheduled procedures […]

Barts Health NHS Trust, a major healthcare provider in England, announced that Clop ransomware actors have stolen files from one of its databases after exploiting a vulnerability in its Oracle E-business Suite software. The stolen data are invoices spanning several years that expose the full names and addresses of individuals who paid for treatment or other services […]

U.S. medical imaging provider SimonMed Imaging is notifying more than 1.2 million individuals of a data breach that exposed their sensitive information. SimonMed Imaging is an outpatient medical imaging and radiology services provider, including MRI and CT scans, X-ray, ultrasound, mammography, PET, nuclear medicine, bone density, and interventional radiology procedures. The radiology company operates about […]

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita has confirmed that a ransomware gang that breached its network stole the personal and health information of nearly 2.7 million individuals. DaVita serves over 265,400 patients across 3,113 outpatient dialysis centers, 2,660 in the United States, and 453 centers in 13 other countries worldwide. The company reported revenues of over $12 […]

UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time that over 100 million people had their personal information and healthcare data stolen in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, marking this as the largest healthcare data breach in recent years. In May, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty warned during a congressional hearing that “maybe a third” of all American’s […]

The BianLian ransomware group has claimed the cyberattack on Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP) and threatens to leak stolen files unless a ransom is paid. BHCP is a network of over 300 pediatric physicians and specialists operating over 60 locations across New York’s Hudson Valley and Connecticut, offering patient care in clinics, community hospitals, and […]

Texas healthcare provider UMC Health System was forced to divert some patients to other locations after a ransomware attack impacted its operations. In an announcement published on its website late last week, which is offline at the time of writing, UMC disclosed it is responding to an IT outage impacting its network. While facilities remain […]