It is the second hospital report in as many days. This one, however, is clearly a ransomware attack and unlike the first hospital attack, no one is making any attempt to minimize this one as the theft of patient data is impacting treatment. The Bangkok Post reports: The personal details of more than 40,000 patients…
Category: Health Data
Resource Anesthesiology Association of California warns patient information was on stolen laptop
KGET reports: Resource Anesthesiology Association of California, a local medical company, is warning that patients might have had their personal information compromised following a laptop theft. The Resource Anesthesiology Association of California says the laptop was stolen from an employee’s vehicle on July 8. A police report was filed but the company says the laptop…
Th: Hacked hospital patients’ data ‘not important’
Online reporters and Sunthorn Kongwarakom report: Officials have rushed to downplay the theft by a hacker of more than 10,000 patients’ personal details from Phetchabun Hospital, describing the information as “not important”. Phetchabun governor Krit Kongmuang was among those who responded to initial reports on social media that the data of 16 million patients of…
NC: Sandhills Center Provides Notice of Potential Data Theft
On July 30, 2021, DataBreaches.net reported on a claimed cyberattack against Sandhills Center in North Carolina. Data for sale had shown up on the “Marketo” site, and when DataBreaches.net looked at the “proof packs,” of data, they included psychological evaluations and other documents with personal and sensitive information. Much of the data was old, and…
Data breach at Coalinga State Hospital reveals private information on nearly 1,800 patients
KFSN reports: On Friday, the State Hospital Department announced a privacy breach at Coalinga State Hospital. Employees have improperly provided confidential information about approximately 1,800 patients now and in the past to the US District Court in the Eastern District of California, officials said. The breach occurred on July 21, 2013, October 12, 2016, and…
One year after the malware attack on Düsseldorf University Hospital: no trace of perpetrators
Heise Online reports (translated): Almost a year after the momentous hacker attack on the Düsseldorf University Hospital, the investigators have no hot lead to the perpetrators. The investigations continued, however, because, among other things, responses to requests for legal assistance to authorities in several countries were pending, said a spokesman for the responsible public prosecutor’s…