Australian Associated Press reports: Surgeries and outpatient care will be delayed after regional Victorian hospital computer networks were hacked in a ransomware attack. The government said personal patient information had not been accessed. Hospitals that are a part of the Gippsland Health Alliance and of the South West Alliance of Rural Health have been impacted….
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CA: Wood Ranch Medical Announces It Will Close Practice Due to Ransomware Attack
Update: this incident was reported to HHS as impacting 5,835 patients. For the second time in six months, a medical practice has announced that it is closing its practice as a result of a ransomware attack. The first case involved Brookside ENT and Hearing Center in Michigan, whose doctors refused to pay the $6,500 ransom…
Ahmedabad: 72 sacks of ID documents stolen from health centre
TNN reports that 72 sacks full of vital documents of citizens have gone missing from AMC’s urban health centre in Vejalpur. This is one of those data breaches that make you just … groan. The documents had gotten wet in June due to a leak in the roof of the storeroom where they had been…
Tomo Drug Testing Notification of Security Incident
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Although it has no confirmation that personal information was acquired without authorization, Tomo Drug Testing (“Tomo”) in Springfield, Missouri announced today that it has taken action after becoming aware of an incident in which an unknown third party gained access to a database storing customer information. Out of an…
Mikhy Farrera-Brochez sentenced to two years’ jail over Singapore HIV patient data leak
Charissa Yong reports: American Mikhy Farrera-Brochez was sentenced on Friday (Sept 27) to two years in jail for using a stolen HIV database from Singapore to extort from the Singapore Government. A Kentucky federal court had earlier in June convicted Farrera-Brochez, 34, of two counts of extortion in two e-mails sent on Jan 22 and…
Two Southwestern Ontario hospitals hit by cyber attack
Kathleen Saylors reports: Two Southwestern Ontario hospitals, connected by shared infrastructure, are currently suffering cyber attacks, the latest in a string of similar incursions in the area this week. The Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance, which oversees the Listowel hospital, about 50 kilometres north of Stratford, and the Wingham hospital in northeast Huron County, confirmed Thursday…