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Nz: New Zealand health service hit by cyber attack

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Dissent

Zach Marzouk reports: A cyber attack hit part of New Zealand’s health service this week, and now hackers who claim to be behind the attack have made contact with health officials. The attack brought down the Waikato District Health Board’s (DHB) complete IT network on Tuesday which resulted in some appointments being cancelled. Read more on ITPro. The…

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Irish patients’ data stolen by hackers shows up in negotiation chat

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Dissent

Laura Noonan in Dublin and James Shotter in Warsaw report: Medical and personal information about Irish patients stolen by hackers last week is now being shared online, screenshots and files seen by the Financial Times show.  The records offered online by hackers to further their demands for almost $20m in ransom also include internal health…

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Judge lets novel claim stand in UHS patient data breach lawsuit

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Dissent

Brendan Pierson reports: A federal judge has narrowed a lawsuit brought by patients against hospital operator Universal Health Services Inc over a data breach last year, finding that merely having their data exposed did not give patients standing to sue but that one plaintiff could go forward with a claim that he was harmed because…

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Student health insurance carrier Guard.me suffers a data breach

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: Student health insurance carrier guard.me has taken their website offline after a vulnerability allowed a threat actor to access policyholders’ personal information. guard.me is one of the world’s largest insurance carriers specializing in providing health insurance to students while traveling or studying abroad in another country. Read more on BleepingComputer.

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NC: Update to Allergy Partners ransomware incident

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Dissent

Back in February, there were media reports that Allergy Partners in North Carolina had been impacted by a ransomware attack on February 23. The threat actors, who were not identified, reportedly demanded $1.75 million ransom. The medical practice was able to restore services in 8 days and noted that they had not paid any ransom….

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UT: Astro Team threat actors dump patient-related files allegedly from Eduro Healthcare

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Dissent

Eduro Healthcare is a Salt Lake City, Utah based company providing transitional care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation services, and assisted living. Eduro provides an email address to use for contact. Sadly, it does not work. Nor do they seem to respond to contact form messages. Or emails to their executives. On April 7, a relatively…

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