Megan Gleason reports: Lovelace patients can once again schedule their appointments and refill their prescriptions online. The Lovelace Health System restored access to its patient portal, MyChart, on Thursday. The system was down following a cyberattack on Ardent Health Services, Lovelace’s parent company, detected on Thanksgiving. The inaccessible patient portal caused difficulties for some people in rescheduling…
Category: Health Data
Patient records lost, equipment damaged at several urban primary health centers by cyclone
Every so often, a natural disaster reminds us of other ways records are lost and why entities should have offsite backups that are regularly updated. Ishvarya Lakshmi reports: Patient records, medical instruments, drugs, syringes, needles and sanitary pads in several urban primary health centres (UPHC) were swept away during the recent cyclone. Officials at the…
College of the Canyons alerts employees to third-party ransomware attack
Tyler Wainfeld reports: College of the Canyons is communicating with more than 2,400 affected personnel after an unauthorized data breach through its insurance provider, according to Eric Harnish, a spokesman for the college. Keenan & Associates, a Torrance-based consulting and brokerage firm which has the Santa Clarita Community College District as one of its clients,…
Self-proclaimed hackers take credit for computer problems at Liberty Hospital
Andy Alcock reports from Missouri: A blackmail message from an apparent hacker appears to be the reason Liberty Hospital computer systems crashed Tuesday. KMBC exclusively obtained that message. The message from an unknown source says in part, “We have hacked you and downloaded all confidential data of your company. And it can be spread out…
If at first you don’t succeed, screw it up again?
In mid-November, DataBreaches reported that AlphV threat actors had added MeridianLink to their leak site. When their victim wouldn’t pay them, AlphV (aka “BlackCat”) filed a complaint with the Securities & Exchange Commission alleging that MeridianLink failed to comply with the SEC’s new cybersecurity rule requiring notification within four days of discovering a material breach….
Welltok databreach affects CHI St. Alexius patients
Elizabeth Shores reports: Patients at CHI St. Alexius are receiving letters from Welltok, Inc., a third-party vendor, about a significant data breach. Welltok said it learned at the end of July about a data leak that had taken place during the summer. Welltok said it notified St. Alexius about the extent of the leak on…