Toni McAllister reports: A six-day shutdown of electronic health records at San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital was due to a malware attack that remains under investigation by a team of forensics professionals, according to SGMH CEO Steve Barron. The attack occurred Nov. 10 and all systems at the 600 N. Highland Springs Avenue campus were back…
Category: Health Data
Lake Charles Memorial Health System issues statement about cyberattack; Hive responds
LCMH never responded to DataBreaches’ emailed inquiries to them about a significant data security breach claimed by Hive, but after Hive started leaking their data and DataBreaches published a post about the attack and data leak, LCMH gave news outlet KPLC a statement. Their brief statement can be found in its entirety on KPLC. Of…
PA: Media’s reporting on breach led to new state data breach law
Rick Earle reports: An exclusive Target 11 investigation into a massive data breach last year has led to a new state law meant to protect every citizen of the Commonwealth. Target 11 Investigator Rick Earle broke the story of that data breach last April and now because of his reporting, state lawmakers passed legislation requiring timely notification of…
UK: Reading clinic leaked the email addresses of 288 patients in an emailed invitation
Jay Jay reports: The South Reading & Shinfield Group Medical Practice, a healthcare clinic in Reading, recently leaked the email addresses of many of its patients after clinic officials included their email addresses in an emailed invitation. Source: Teiss
Lake Charles Memorial Health system victim of cyberattack and data leak by Hive
On October 25, Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMH) in Louisiana received an email that began, “Ladies and gentlemen! Attention, please! This is Hive Ransomware Team.” The remainder of the email stated that Hive had been in LCMH’s network for 12 days and had exfiltrated 270 GB of files including patient and employee data. A…
Medibank defends decision to not pay hackers ransom for stolen data as it contacts 480,000 customers
Nassim Khadem and Daniel Ziffer report: Medibank’s boss says the company will begin directly communicating with nearly half a million customers whose health data is believed to have been stolen, weeks after it first became aware hackers had breached its customer database. Medibank’s chief executive David Koczkar said the company had today started communicating with…