Christopher Bing and Munsif Vengattil report: Stolen customer data including medical reports from India’s biggest health insurer, Star Health, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram, just weeks after Telegram’s founder was accused of allowing the messenger app to facilitate crime. The purported creator of the chatbots told a security researcher, who alerted Reuters to…
Category: Health Data
UK: Data on nearly 1 million NHS patients leaked online following Qilin ransomware attack on London hospitals
Alexander Martin reports: People with symptoms of sensitive medical conditions, including cancer and sexually transmitted infections, are among almost a million individuals who had their personal information published online following a ransomware attack that disrupted NHS hospitals in London earlier this year, according to an analysis shared with Recorded Future News. The examination by CaseMatrix, a company…
Licensed professional counselor indicted in $2 million health care fraud scheme
A reminder to check your Explanation of Benefits (EOB) statements from your health insurers to see if you spot any visits, appointments, or services that you never got but were billed for. McALLEN, Texas – A 46-year-old resident of Mission has been taken into custody on charges of health care fraud and aggravated identity theft…
Everything old is new again, part 2: Was U.S. Dermatology Partners hit twice within months?
Earlier today, DataBreaches reported that MCNA Dental allegedly suffered a cyberattack involving patient data. According to the threat actor who claimed responsibility for the attack (Everest Ransom Team), this incident was totally unrelated to a February 2023 ransomware attack by LockBit that was supposedly leaked in April 2023. In May 2023, MCNA Dental reported that…
Everything old is new again? MCNA Dental allegedly suffers second big data breach of PHI
The Everest Ransomware Team has a new post on their leak site: Company has the last 24 hours to contact us using the instructions left.In case of silence, all data will be published More than 1 million personal EMR’s + different internal company documents But was this a new incident or were they just trying…
NJ: The Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Center discloses July attack by Meow Leaks
On September 6, The Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Center posted a substitute notice on its website about an incident in July that affected patients at their New Jersey and New York locations. The attack by Meow Leaks reportedly resulted in the threat actors accessing some protected health information (PHI) of an undisclosed number of patients….