Ron Southwick has a thoughtful piece on the complexities of deciding whether or not to pay ransom if a healthcare entity is the victim of a cyberattack. As experts comment, while most experts and law enforcement prefer victims not pay ransom, sometimes entities decide they need to do it. But what are they paying it…
Category: Health Data
Breach of the Protection Obligation by Fullerton Healthcare and Agape CP Holdings
From the Privacy and Data Protection Commission of Singapore, there’s an update to a breach that was previously disclosed in October 2021: A financial penalty of $58,000 and $10,000 was imposed on Fullerton Healthcare and Agape CP Holdings respectively for failing to put in place reasonable security arrangements to protect personal data belonging to Fullerton…
At least 100,000 could have had data exposed after US health department was hit by global MOVEit cyberattack
Sean Lyngaas reports: At least 100,000 people could have had their data compromised by a hack of contractors at the Department of Health and Human Services, a department official said Thursday, making it the latest US government agency to be caught up in a sweeping cyberattack connected to Russian cybercriminals. HHS notified Congress of the breach on…
Mountain View Hospital restores clinical functions; culprit behind cyberattack still unknown
Logan Ramsey provides an update on a previously noted ransomware attack: An area hospital has been working for over a month now to resolve a cyberattack and progress is being made. Mountain View Hospital has managed to restore clinical functions for itself, Idaho Falls Community Hospital and its partner clinics. The IT team and other…
Henrietta Johnson Medical Center patients affected by breach at Delaware Health Net
CORRECTION AND UPDATE: DataBreaches has been contacted by a spokesperson for Delaware Health Information Network who says that they were not the party responsible for this breach and this site should not have linked to them and should have linked to Delaware Health Net if they were the responsible party. DataBreaches checked the medical center’s…
More than a million NHS patients’ details compromised after cyber attack
Rebecca Thomas reports: NHS details of more than a million patients have been compromised in a cyber attack, senior health chiefs have been warned. A recent ransomware attack on the University of Manchester affected an NHS patient data set which holds information on 1.1 million patients across 200 hospitals, leaks to The Independent have confirmed. Among the details potentially exposed…