World Nation News reports the threat actors who attacked Hospital Clínic de Barcelona are threatening to release sensitive medical information on patients. In particular, they warned that “in the near future” they will publish information about patients with infectious diseases and information about the use of experimental drugs in the elderly that the Barcelona center…
Category: Health Data
Alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data with advertisers
Zack Whittaker reports: For years, online alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest were sharing with advertisers the personal information and health data of their patients without their consent. Monument, which acquired Tempest in 2022, confirmed the extensive years-long leak of patients’ information in a data breach notification filed with California’s attorney general last week, blaming their use…
HIPAA: Deficient or Miscast
Matt Fisher writes: The development of new technology in healthcare and the massive expansion in sources of healthcare data have both created many complications when it comes to protecting and securing sensitive information about individuals. Inevitably, the discussion then turns to the role of HIPAA, which then turns to HIPAA not meeting current needs. A recent…
Sarah D. Culbertson Memorial Hospital working to recover from cybersecurity incident
WGEM reports: Culbertson Memorial Hospital officials reported Friday the hospital had been the victim of a cyber-attack last week. Officials stated they discovered a network disruption at 3 a.m. March 30 that required information systems to be taken offline. Read more at WGEM.
7×7 Dental Implant & Oral Surgery alleged victim of Abyss ransomware group
A leak site called “Abyss” recently added 7×7 Dental Implant & Oral Surgery Specialists of San Francisco (7×7) to their site and claimed to have 114 GB of the dental practice’s files. A file tree showing 2,891 directories and 63,557 files was posted as proof of claim. Some of the filenames suggest business-related internal documents,…
NuLife Med settles class action lawsuit over March 2022 data breach
Top Class Actions reports that NuLife Med LLC has agreed to settle claims it failed to protect patient information in a March 2022 data breach. On May 9, the New Hampshire medical devices firm reported a breach to HHS that affected 81,244 patients. In their website notice, they noted that the types of personally identifiable…