The Klinikum Lippe describes itself as one of the largest municipal hospitals in Germany and part of the University Hospital OWL of the University of Bielefeld. On November 17, they detected a significant cyberattack that impacted all three of their locations: Detmold, Lemgo, and Bad Salzuflen. From its own statements, it appeared that the hospital…
Category: Health Data
Nurse removed confidential patient files from three nursing homes in Cork and Kerry
Sean McCarthaigh reports: A registered nurse had admitted being guilty of professional misconduct over the unauthorised taking of a large number of confidential patient records and medical files from three nursing homes where she worked in Kerry and Cork. The nurse, Rasa Leliene, appeared before a fitness-to-practise inquiry of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of…
Connexin Software notifies parents of 2.2 million pediatric patients of hack
Connexin Software, a business associate to numerous pediatric practices, recently notified HHS that it experienced a breach that affected 2,216,365 patients. One thing DataBreaches noted with interest in their substitute notice below is their statement that an unauthorized individual was able to access an offline set of patient data used for data conversion and troubleshooting. …
One Brooklyn Health System offline for more than one week — has it been hit with ransomware?
If it sounds like a ransomware attack and they won’t tell you what’s going on for more than one week, I think ransomware sounds like a reasonable guess, and DataBreaches understands why some people are suggesting that. On November 25, The City reported: The computer network system at a major Brooklyn hospital network has been…
GA: Federal magistrate judge recommends dismissing hacking case against Vikas Singla
In June 2021, DataBreaches reported that Vikas Singla had been indicted on charges relating to a 2018 cyberattack on Gwinnett Medical Center. At the time of the alleged attack, Singla was the chief operating officer of a metro-Atlanta network security company. He was charged with 18 counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act…
Update: One week later, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) services still on manual system
Servers of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are still down as AIIMS works to recover from a ransomware attack. According to some sources, the attackers, who have not been named, had reportedly demanded about Rs 200 crore in cryptocurrency, but Delhi Police deny that AIIMS has reported receiving any such demand. Thirty…