Yesterday, DataBreaches received a phone call from an employee at St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The employee was asking if we knew anything about a cyberattack on Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) and stated that everything had been down for two days but the employees were not really being given information other than…
Category: Health Data
Jp: Medical organizations and IT vendors “should bear part of the cyber damage”.
[Translation:] A document released on August 24 by the Japan Medical Association Policy Research Institute (Nichi-Isouken), which aims to plan medical policy, is causing controversy on SNS. Regarding contracts and responsibility sharing between medical institutions and system vendors, based on the “principle of good faith”, if the vendor’s risk explanation is insufficient, the medical institution…
IoT Security Report Sheds Light on Hospitals’ Device Risks
Asimily, an Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) risk management platform, announced the availability of a new report: Total Cost of Ownership Analysis on Connected Device Cybersecurity Risk. The following is their press release: The full report highlights the unique cybersecurity challenges that healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) face and the true…
Laptop containing confidential data stolen from blood bank of Gurugram hospital
PTI reports: A laptop containing confidential information was allegedly stolen from the offices of a private hospital’s blood bank, police here said on Tuesday. According to a complaint filed by Dr Sangeeta Agarwal, head of blood bank at the Fortis Memorial Research Institute, the laptop was stolen from her office on August 5. Read more…
Ie: Data protection breach at military medical facility
Neil Michael reports: A Defence Forces investigation is under way into another data protection breach of the military’s electronic health record system. The latest investigation centres on the alleged actions of a healthcare worker at a military medical facility. The Defence Forces has said it is the third alleged breach in relation to the electronic military medical…
Fi: Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District confirms data breach by ex-staff member, 900 patients’ data compromised
YLE News reports: The Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS) has discovered that a former employee, who served as a practical nurse within the district, breached the privacy of nearly 1,000 patients. The case was confirmed by HUS Administrative Chief Medical Officer (AVMO) Teppo Heikkilä, who said the nurse gained access to the files through the…