Lawrence Abrams reports: UF Health Central Florida has suffered a reported ransomware attack that forced two hospitals to shut down portions of their IT network. The University of Florida Health, also known as UF Health, is a healthcare network of hospitals and physician practices that provide care to countries throughout Florida. Today, BleepingComputer has learned that…
Category: Health Data
MT: Glacier Medical Associates reports data security breach
Daily Inter Lake reports: Glacier Medical Associates announced Tuesday the medical practice detected and stopped a data security breach that occurred April 7. According to a press release, Glacier Medical Associates immediately engaged third-party forensic specialists to assist with securing the network environment and investigate the extent of any unauthorized activity. The investigation concluded May…
Scripps begins notifying more than 147,000 people of ransomware records breach
Paul Sisson reports: Scripps Health announced Tuesday that it has begun notifying nearly 150,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen by hackers during the ransomware attack that hit the local health care giant on May 1. In a statement, San Diego’s second-largest medical provider says that it is “beginning to mail notification letters to…
20/20 Eye Care Network and Hearing Care Network notify 3,253,822 health plan members of breach that deleted contents of AWS buckets
20/20 Eye Care Network, Inc. is a managed vision care company in Florida that offers administrative services to health plans. 20/20 Hearing Care Network expands those services into hearing care. On May 28, 20/20’s Chief Compliance Officer notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office of an incident in which their Amazon AWS S3 buckets were accessed…
Swedish Health Agency shuts down SmiNet after hacking attempts
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The Swedish Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) has shut down SmiNet, the country’s infectious diseases database, on Thursday after it was targeted in several hacking attempts. SmiNet, which is also used to store electronic reports with statistics on COVID-19 infections, was shut down on Thursday to investigate the attacks and was brought back online…
MA: Sturdy Hospital pays ransom after patient information is stolen
Updated June 1: External counsel for the hospital notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that this incident resulted in notifications to 42,336 people and that those affected were offered two years of Experian credit and identity monitoring services. Updated June 3: It seems that on May 28, they notified HHS that they notified 57,379, so…