DataBreaches has learned that Tift Regional Medical Center in Georgia was the victim of a ransomware attack in July. Although the hospital was negotiating with the Hive ransomware group, negotiations recently broke off. According to communications shared exclusively with DataBreaches, the breach started on July 14 and ended on August 8. During that time, Hive…
Category: Health Data
Scoop: VSS Medical Technology’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
DataBreaches suspects that most readers would agree that getting hit by a ransomware gang qualifies your day as a very bad day. But how about getting hit by two different ransomware gangs on the same day? VSS Medical Technology and one of their companies, Sigmund Software, had what sounds like a terrible, horrible, no good,…
ClearBalance, Bricker & Eckler settle data breach lawsuits involving patient data
To follow up on two previously reported breaches involving protected health information, here are two class action settlements that involve business associates: CSI Financial Services aka ClearBalance In July 2021, DataBreaches reported a breach at CSI Financial Services, aka ClearBalance, a firm that services loans made by hospitals and providers to patients who need to…
NY: Empress EMS hit by Hive ransomware
On September 9, Empress EMS in New York contacted HHS to report an incident that affected 318,558 patients. According to a notice on their website, an unauthorized individual gained access to their system on May 26 and copied what they describe as a “small subset of files” on July 13. On July 14, Empress discovered…
Cyber Criminals Targeting Healthcare Payment Processors, Costing Victims Millions in Losses
IC3.gov PIN 20220914-001 14 September 2022 TLP: WHITE Summary The FBI has received multiple reports of cyber criminals increasingly targeting healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments. In each of these reports, unknown cyber criminals used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and obtain access to files, healthcare…
Federal Court holds nonprofit health center is immune from data breach class action
Daniel Rockey of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner writes: In a case of first impression, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted the motion of Defendant Neighborhood Healthcare seeking order compelling the United States to defend a putative class action lawsuit alleging that Neighborhood failed to ensure the confidentiality of her…