Logan Leo reports: The pandemic was devastating, CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal recovers from computer attack, which slows down operations. This cyber attack started in late May and we noticed it on June 3rd, Related to the founding Deputy Director General Jean-Francois Fortin Verriolt. Microsoft and the Department of Health’s Cyber Defense team successfully stopped the attackers on…
Category: Health Data
NJ: Coastal Medical Group notifies patients of data breach
Coastal Medical Group, Old Bridge, is notifying patients of a data security incident that involved the patients’ health information. On April 21, the practice discovered that certain of its computer systems were being affected by a data security event that the practice believes began on March 25, 2021, according to a prepared statement. After discovering…
San Juan Regional Medical Center notifies 68,792 patients of cybersecurity breach
On June 4, 2021, San Juan Regional Medical Center (“SJRMC”) in New Mexico posted a breach notice on their web site. The notice said that SJRMC had identified unauthorized access to their network on September 8, 2020. Their subsequent investigation revealed that the threat actor removed files from the server on September 7-8, 2020. Following…
GA: Savannah hospital system experiences outage after ransomware attack
Molly Curley, Alex Bozarjian The St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) hospital system in Savannah was the victim of a ransomware attack Thursday morning. WSAV spoke with a patient who says all computers went down around 4 a.m., and nurses have been forced to keep track of medications with a pen and paper. Read more on WAVY.
Reproductive Biology Associates and My Egg Bank notify 38,538 patients of ransomware incident
Reproductive Biology Associates and its affiliate My Egg Bank North America issued a breach notification involving a ransomware incident that impacted the Atlanta entities. According to the notification submitted to Maine’s Attorney General’s Office and similar statements posted on their web sites, the entities first became aware of a potential data incident on April 16,…
Se: Medhelp will pay 12 million SEK after the 1177 leak
SEK 12 million in penalty fees against the company Medhelp, half a million against the Stockholm Region and SEK 250,000 against each against Sörmland and Värmland. This is the outcome of the review made by the Privacy Protection Authority in the case of the millions of 1177 calls that were left unprotected on the internet….