Brian Krebs reports: A ransomware outbreak has besieged a Wisconsin based IT company that provides cloud data hosting, security and access management to more than 100 nursing homes across the United States. The ongoing attack is preventing these care centers from accessing crucial patient medical records, and the IT company’s owner says she fears this…
Category: Health Data
French Hospital had 6000 Computers Locked Down by Ransomware Attack
Bill Toulas reports: According to a report by Le Monde, the Rouen University Hospital-Charles Nicolle is currently struggling to recuperate from a catastrophic ransomware attack that hit them almost a week ago. This is one of the largest hospitals in Northern France, with 2500 beds and 10000 personnel, so the disruption affects many hundreds of people…
MO: Saint Francis Healthcare announces ransomware incident involving Ferguson Medical Group; not all records recovered
Updated Nov. 21: This incident has just been posted on HHS’s public breach tool as impacting 107,054 patients. Original Post: Marsha Heller of KAIT 8 reports that Saint Francis Healthcare System announced that Ferguson Medical Group (FMG) in Sikeston, Mo. was hit with a ransomware attack on September 20th. The following is the notice on…
Ransomware Bites 400 Veterinary Hospitals
Brian Krebs reports: National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a California company that owns more than 700 animal care facilities around the globe, is still working to recover from a ransomware attack late last month that affected more than half of those properties, separating many veterinary practices from their patient records, payment systems and practice management software. NVA…
Indian onlinebloodbank FINALLY secures exposed donors database
It’s been a frustrating matter, but it may finally be resolved, thanks to the individual known as @fs0ciety on Twitter. In May 2019, DataBreaches.net was alerted to an online bloodbank in India that had a misconfigured Amazon s3 bucket. Despite repeated emails by this site and even a phone call from Banbreach infosec in India,…
Unprotected patient data in the Internet – a review 60 days later, or The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A report by Greenbone Networks in September about the leak of medical images online made waves — including spurring Senator Warner to ask HHS OCR what it was doing in response to the report. Today, Greenbone reached out to a number of sites to alert us all to an update to their report. From their…