Valéry Rieß-Marchive reports some details on the ransomware incident involving André-Mignot hospital. He suggests that someone — but not the LockBit 3.0 franchise itself — used LockBit 3.0 Black to attack the hospital and to issue a $100,000 ransom demand. You can read his reporting and analysis on LeMagIT. From reviewing his material and additional…
Category: Health Data
In: After AIIMS, Chinese hackers ATTACK ICMR website over 6000 times in a day
Zee Media reports: Days after targeting the Delhi AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital websites, a group of hackers allegedly tried to hack the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). According to reports, the ICMR website was attacked around 6000 times in a day. The sources citing government officials said that hackers apparently from…
CommonSpirit Health Provides Cyberattack Update and Notification of Data Breach Involving Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Washington state
There was an update on December 1 to the CommonSpirit ransomware attack that DataBreaches has reported on multiple times already. Press release: On October 2, 2022, CommonSpirit detected activity on its IT network that was later determined to be ransomware. CommonSpirit immediately took steps to secure the network, which included proactively taking certain systems offline, and…
Fr: Versailles hospital targeted by cyberattack
California 18 reports: The Versailles hospital center, located in Chesnay-Rocquencourt (Yvelines), has been targeted since Saturday evening by a cyberattack which is disrupting its activity, the establishment’s management said on Sunday. confirming information from franceinfo. The reception of patients is therefore ” limit “explained the hospital, adding that the computer system had been cut and a crisis…
November settlements in some class action lawsuits involving health information
There were several settlements in November involving class action lawsuits against entities where the breach involved protected health information or health data. Here’s a brief recap of them: Ambry Genetics agreed to pay $12.25 million to resolve claims that a 2020 data breach compromised consumer health data and other identifiers. The settlement benefits patients whose…
In: Safdarjung Hospital reports cyberattack but not ransomware
ANI reports: Safdarjung Hospital officials on Saturday said the hospital was under a cyber-attack, but the damage was not as severe as it had been for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital. A hospital spokesperson indicated that this was not a ransomware attack. Read more at Times of India.