Eric Geller reports: The U.S. government is struggling to convince hospitals that they need to spend time and money fighting hackers and provide useful advice to them, a problem that could have lethal consequences as the country’s ransomware crisis rages on. “I don’t think we’ve figured out how to talk to the small and medium-sized…
Category: Health Data
Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists notifies 243,000 patients of cyberattack
On April 1, DataBreaches reached out to Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists (BOS) in Mississippi to ask about a claim by Abyss threat actors that they had compromised BOS. BOS never replied. But now, five months later, BOS submitted a breach notification to the Maine Attorney General’s Office. The notification indicates that 242,986 people were affected by…
Janssen health database breached in cyber incident
Stefanie Schappert reports: IBM announced Wednesday that an unauthorized party breached the patient healthcare database it manages for the Johnson & Johnson-owned Janssen CarePath platform. Many of the patients are or have been treated for serious diseases, such as cancer. […] IBM says the breach exposed the sensitive information of an undisclosed number of patients,…
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery notification — and what it doesn’t tell the patients.
On July 17, DataBreaches reported that BlackCat had added the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery (BHPS) to their dark web leak site. The June listing was updated to include photos that appeared to be proof of claims about their access to the clinic’s files. The doctors did not respond to DataBreaches’ inquiries in July, but on…
Ragnar_Locker leaks data from Israeli Medical Center
Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak was hit by a cyberattack on August 7. Patient care was not disrupted for some things, but the ministry instructed that the center’s outpatient clinics and imaging centers not accept patients and that the public not go to its emergency room until further notice. A week later, the…
In: 320,000 Patient Records From Ayush Jharkhand Gov Leaked on Hacking Forum
CloudSek reports: On 14 August, CloudSEK’s contextual AI digital risk platform XVigil discovered a threat actor Tanaka sharing a database marked as bitsphere[.]in on an english speaking hacking forum. Analysis of the database reveals that the following information has been leaked: More than 3 lakh 20 thousand patient records containing their PII information and medical diagnosis. 500 login…