Humber River Hospital in Toronto was hit with a ransomware attack in the early hours of the morning of June 14. Their response was organized, immediate, and reportedly very effective. The following is a statement prominently displayed on their web site today: Code Grey- Update On June 14, 2021, at about 0200 hrs we experienced…
Category: Health Data
OK: Stillwater Medical Center officials investigating electronic security breach
KOCO5 has a brief item involving Stillwater Medical Center: Stillwater Medical Center officials say they recently discovered an electronic security breach that affected some of their systems. A social media post said they “immediately took steps to ensure the security of our environment, launched an investigation with the assistance of a computer forensic firm and notified law…
Impacts of Department of Health data breach remain unknown
CJ Baker reports: The Wyoming Department of Health knows it accidentally published the personal information of 164,000 residents on a public website earlier this year. But it remains a mystery as to whether any bad actors accessed the data before the department discovered the mistake and took the files offline. The roughly 54 files that…
Healthcare entities in Saudi Arabia, Illinois, and Mississippi fall prey to Xing Team
Note: updates to the breaches included in this report appear below the original post. Some threat actors have gained a lot of notoriety while others are lesser known. In this article, DataBreaches.net reports on a relatively unknown group that has been hitting the healthcare sector, “Xing Team.” Like other groups, Xing maintains a dedicated leak…
Arizona Asthma and Allergy Institute Provides Notice of Maze Attack in 2020
An incident initially reported to HHS on May 3 has been updated to 70,372 patients from the initial report of 50,000. The following is the entity’s notice on their web site, and after you read it, I’ll meet you on the other side to explain it more, because they only discovered the breach when DataBreaches.net…
In: Health Ministry Refutes CoWIN Data Leak Claim, Initiates Investigation
Archis Chowdhury reports: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare refuted the claims around a breach in vaccination data of over 150 million individuals from the CoWIN portal, and termed such claims to be prima facie fake, in a statement issued on Thursday. It also stated that the matter is being further investigated by the…