Daniel Croft reports: Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) parent company Medlab back in February 2022 announced that it had suffered a cyber attack at the hands of the Quantum hacking group, which stole 86 gigabytes worth of data belonging to over 200,000 people, which included health information, passport details, and credit card information (number, expiry and…
Category: Health Data
Proliance Surgeons notifying 437,392 patients after ransomware attack earlier this year
On November 17, Proliance Surgeons notified HHS that 437,392 patients were affected by a breach. An undated notice on their website explains that it was a ransomware attack in which files and systems were encrypted and some data was exfiltrated. “After a thorough forensic investigation, we discovered on May 24, 2023, that additional files may…
More than 1 million Michiganders affected by Welltok cyberattack
Kristen Jordan Shamus reports: More than 1 million Michiganders were affected by a cybersecurity breach at Welltok Inc., a software company contracted to provide communication services for Corewell Health’s southeastern Michigan properties along with a healthy lifestyle portal for Priority Health, an insurance plan owned by Corewell. For about 2,500 Priority Health members, names, addresses and…
Hacker breaks silence following a decade behind bars in Cybernews documentary
DataBreaches first reported on Jesse William McGraw of Arlington, Texas, a/k/a “GhostExodus,” was when he was arrested by the FBI in June 2009 and then indicted in July 2009 on federal felony charges related to hacking into Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas. McGraw, who worked as a contract security guard at North Central Medical Plaza,…
Attorney General James Warns New Yorkers Impacted by Medical Company’s Data Breach of Potential Identity Theft
November 28 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today warned New Yorkers impacted by a data breach at a medical transcription company, Perry Johnson & Associates, to take action to prevent potential identity theft. The company experienced a data breach affecting nearly nine million patients, including approximately four million New Yorkers in…
U.K.: Hospitals urged to improve data protection standards following incident at NHS Fife
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS Fife, after an unauthorised person was able to enter a ward and access the personal information of 14 patients. In February 2023, an unauthorised person gained access to a ward. Due to a lack of identification checks and formal processes,…