Hospitals, clinics, insurers, and medical-IT vendors are the highest-value targets in cybercrime. Below is every healthcare-sector breach LeakTrace has indexed — patient records, HIPAA disclosures, ransomware victims, and supply-chain compromises.
Yesterday, Bryan Lambert reported: Health care providers at Brockton Hospital are preparing to work off paper, not computers, for the next two weeks as the health care hub deals with an ongoing cybersecurity incident. T
Google has made a big step forward by extending end-to-end encryption to Android and iOS devices for Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) users, says an expert. “All in all, this is a welcome update, especially in light
Before I ever held a security title, I was a software engineer implementing vertically integrated automation systems for industrial manufacturing, warehouse-scale conveyor networks, robotic material handling, physical in
I posted the following article this morning over on PogoWasRight.org, but I have had so many people sending me links to stories about this news that I guess I should have posted it here, too, as a future data breach. by
Before I ever held a security title, I was a software engineer implementing vertically integrated automation systems for industrial manufacturing, warehouse-scale conveyor networks, robotic material handling, physical in
A chief medical information officer describes what hospitals face when they inevitably suffer a ransomware attack—whether it leads to short- or long-term outages.
Medusa ransomware forced 9-day shutdown, $800K demand
1.2M individuals' data including SSNs, driver's licenses, voter registration
284,525 patient records with clinical information
284K victims' sensitive mental health information accessed
3.4M patient health records including SSNs, medical data, insurance info
3.4M healthcare records including SSNs, DOB, health insurance data exposed
3.4M patient health records including SSNs, insurance data, medical information exposed
950K patient appointment and billing records exposed via compromised scheduling vendor
2.8M pharmacy customer records exposed via compromised drug distribution platform
820K patient lab results exposed via misconfigured API following Quest Diagnostics merger
1.2M clinical trial participant records exposed via compromised research data platform
1.5M patient records from Singapore public healthcare system breached for second time
280K patient records stolen in network intrusion
1.8M dialysis patient records compromised in ransomware attack on kidney care provider
2.7M member records exposed via compromised claims analytics vendor
340K patient records compromised
3.1M Medicaid and Medicare patient records exfiltrated via compromised claims portal
University of Mississippi Medical Center is still scrambling to respond to a ransomware attack last Thursday