There’s an update to the case of a man accused of hacking the human resources databases at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center starting in 2014 and stealing the data of 65,000 employees. Many of the employees became victims of identity theft for tax fraud. Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of…
Category: Health Data
HSE hack: High Court grants orders barring use of stolen data
Mary Carolan reports: All of the HSE’s data “is potentially compromised” following a massive cyberattack, its chief executive, Paul Reid, has told the High Court. […] …. the HSE applied for orders, granted by Mr Justice Kevin Cross, restraining persons unknown, and any persons with knowledge of the orders, from sharing, selling, publishing, processing or…
Hackers Offer Decrypt Key to Irish Health Service With a Catch
Ryan Gallagher and Peter Flanagan of Bloomberg report: A day after threatening to publicly release patient data, the hackers who targeted Ireland’s health service offered a decryption key that they said could be used to unlock computers infected with ransomware. While seeming to offer an olive branch — sharing a link to download the decryption…
Update: Nocona General Hospital “recently” learned of a breach we reported in early February
On February 4, DataBreaches.net reached out to Nocona General Hospital (NGH) in Texas about an attack claimed by Conti threat actors the previous day. The hospital did not respond. On February 7, this site emailed NGH, writing, in part, “I see that Conti threat actors have dumped files that they claimed they copied and stole…
Cyber attack has caused ‘enormous risk’ – HSE official
RTÉ reports: The Health Service Executive’s National Clinical Adviser for Acute Operations has said there is an “enormous risk” across health services following the cyber attack last week which forced a shutdown of the HSE’s IT systems. Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Dr Vida Hamilton said it is a “major disaster” and described it as…
Health Plan of San Joaquin notifying more than 420,000 of email hack last year
On or about October 12, Health Plan of San Joaquin (HPSJ) learned of unusual activity affecting its email system. On October 23, 2020, the investigation determined that an unknown person(s) had accessed a number of HPSJ employee email accounts between September 26, 2020 and October 12, 2020. Yesterday, HPSJ sent out notifications and notified the…