Today’s reminder that a lot of businesses have health plans for their employees. Acuity Brands in Georgia has issued a press release with the results of its investigations into two breaches that they report were unrelated. From their statement: The investigation determined that an unauthorized person obtained access to some of Acuity’s systems on December…
Category: Health Data
Receivables Performance Management reveals ransomware attack in May 2021
Receivables Performance Management (RPM), a business associate to a number of businesses, including those in the healthcare sector, has been notifying regulators and individuals bout an incident in 2021 that reportedly impacted more than half a million Texans and an as-yet untold total number of individuals. The Washington state entity revealed that on May 12,…
NZ: Ransomware attacks: Privacy Commissioner plans investigation as Justice, Health hit
Chris Keall reports: Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster is planning an investigation after Wellington-based IT provider Mercury IT was hit by a ransomware attack – potentially compromising sensitive data it hosts for multiple clients, including health insurer Accuro, BusinessNZ, the NZ National Nurses Association and the Ministry of Justice, with 15,000 Coroners Court files taken out. The…
Another class action lawsuit against Empress EMS filed over July ransomware attack
Another lawsuit has been filed in the wake of a ransomware attack on a New York ambulance service. Now we hear that the victim paid ransom. Will it make a difference? Firehouse reports: A lawsuit has been filed against Empress Ambulance in New York after hackers accessed patient information. According to the class action lawsuit…
Cyberattack at the Versailles hospital center: the trail of a LockBit usurper
Valéry Rieß-Marchive reports some details on the ransomware incident involving André-Mignot hospital. He suggests that someone — but not the LockBit 3.0 franchise itself — used LockBit 3.0 Black to attack the hospital and to issue a $100,000 ransom demand. You can read his reporting and analysis on LeMagIT. From reviewing his material and additional…
In: After AIIMS, Chinese hackers ATTACK ICMR website over 6000 times in a day
Zee Media reports: Days after targeting the Delhi AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital websites, a group of hackers allegedly tried to hack the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). According to reports, the ICMR website was attacked around 6000 times in a day. The sources citing government officials said that hackers apparently from…