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Data breach from contact tracing survey ‘low risk’ to Hoosier privacy, 750,000 affected

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Dissent

WANE reports: The Indiana Department of Health announced Tuesday it is notifying nearly 750,000 Hoosiers that data from the state’s COVID-19 online contact tracing survey was improperly accessed back in July. The data included name, address, email, gender, ethnicity and race, and date of birth. “We believe the risk to Hoosiers whose information was accessed…

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New details — and data — emerge from Eskenazi Health ransomware incident

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Dissent

On August 4, this site noted that Eskenazi Health in Indiana had reportedly gone on diversion protocols following an attempted ransomware attack. On August 9, the hospital reported that it was still on diversion but that no patient or employee data was affected by the attack – or at least as far as they could…

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The Gelre hospital has been attacked by cyber criminals for three weeks

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Dissent

Cybercrimeinfo.nl reports: Hackers have spent three weeks trying to break into the ICT environment of Gelre hospitals. They failed to loot privacy-sensitive data or other information. As a precaution, the healthcare institutions have increased the security measures. Gelre Hospitals (Dutch: Gelre Ziekenhuizen) is a group of hospitals comprising hospitals in Apeldoorn and Zutphen, and an outpatient clinic…

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Healthcare provider expected to lose $106.8 million following ransomware attack

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Dissent

Sometimes (but not always), breaches have steep consequences. Catalin Cimpanu reports: Scripps Health, a California-based nonprofit healthcare provider that runs five hospitals and 19 outpatient facilities, said it expects to lose an estimated $106.8 million following a ransomware attack that hit the organization in May 2021. “Operating revenues and operating expenses for the quarter ended…

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Exclusive: Attack on HVAC vendor gave threat actor access to Boston Children’s Hospital

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Dissent

If you think about “supply chain attack” and “HVAC,” you will probably immediately think of the headline-making Target breach of 2013.  But that wasn’t the only breach via a third-party HVAC vendor. Just this month, several hospitals in Boston may have narrowly escaped potentially serious breaches when their HVAC vendor was hacked and the threat…

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Hive ransomware attacks Memorial Health System, steals patient data

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Dissent

Yesterday, news broke that Memorial Health system in Ohio had been hit with a ransomware attack and that surgeries were being delayed. Today Ionut Ilascu reports more details, including that the attack appears to involve the Hive ransomware threat actors: BleepingComputer has seen evidence that the attackers have stolen databases with information belonging to 200,000…

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