There was an update on December 1 to the CommonSpirit ransomware attack that DataBreaches has reported on multiple times already. Press release: On October 2, 2022, CommonSpirit detected activity on its IT network that was later determined to be ransomware. CommonSpirit immediately took steps to secure the network, which included proactively taking certain systems offline, and…
Category: Health Data
Fr: Versailles hospital targeted by cyberattack
California 18 reports: The Versailles hospital center, located in Chesnay-Rocquencourt (Yvelines), has been targeted since Saturday evening by a cyberattack which is disrupting its activity, the establishment’s management said on Sunday. confirming information from franceinfo. The reception of patients is therefore ” limit “explained the hospital, adding that the computer system had been cut and a crisis…
November settlements in some class action lawsuits involving health information
There were several settlements in November involving class action lawsuits against entities where the breach involved protected health information or health data. Here’s a brief recap of them: Ambry Genetics agreed to pay $12.25 million to resolve claims that a 2020 data breach compromised consumer health data and other identifiers. The settlement benefits patients whose…
In: Safdarjung Hospital reports cyberattack but not ransomware
ANI reports: Safdarjung Hospital officials on Saturday said the hospital was under a cyber-attack, but the damage was not as severe as it had been for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital. A hospital spokesperson indicated that this was not a ransomware attack. Read more at Times of India.
‘We weren’t ready’ — Inside St. Michael Medical Center during October cyberattack outages
Nathan Pilling reports: In early October, a fresh batch of troubles arrived at St. Michael Medical Center. They would first be linked to an “IT security incident.” It would eventually be acknowledged by the hospital’s parent organization, CommonSpirit Health – one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country – that the group…
In: Hackers Selling Personal Data Of 150,000 Patients From a Tamil Nadu Hospital in Supply-Chain Attack
Bharat Sharma reports: After a cyberattack on AIIMS knocked out its servers, a threat actor is selling medical records of patients of a Tamil Nadu-based multispecialty hospital. A report released by CloudSEK claims that patient data of Sree Saran Medical Centre is on sale by a threat actor. On November 22, 2022, CloudSEK discovered a post…