Juan F. Luis Hospital CEO Darlene A. Baptiste says no personal data was stolen in the April cyberattack that forced the hospital offline for months, causing major billing delays, financial losses, and a massive system rebuild now nearly complete. Ernice Gilbert reports: The April cyberattack that crippled the Juan F. Luis Hospital’s electronic systems cost the facility…
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Massachusetts hospitals Heywood, Athol say outage was a cybersecurity incident
Joseph Topping reports: Heywood Hospital and Athol Hospital said a network outage this week was caused by a cybersecurity incident. The hospitals said they took affected systems offline and engaged a third-party cybersecurity firm. The facilities—Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Massachusetts, and Athol Hospital in Athol, Massachusetts—remain open and caring for patients; earlier in the week…
Heritage Provider Network $49.99M Class Action Settlement
Nicole Aljet reports an update on a data breach that had been disclosed by Regal Medical Group in February 2023. Current and former patients who received a notice in early 2023 stating a data breach involving Heritage Provider Network or its affiliates may have exposed their personal or medical information could qualify to claim a cash payment…
Integris Health Agrees to $30 Million Settlement Over 2023 Data Breach
Lauren Giella reports: Oklahoma health system Integris Health reached a $30 million settlement in a data breach class action lawsuit that impacted over two million people over two years ago. This agreement settles a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma that accuses Integris of negligence after…
They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Interior Health denied it for a decade.
Harvey Cashore, Eva Uguen-Csenge, and Mark Kelley report: Kelowna nurse Ashley Stone sits down at her kitchen table, opens a bulky blue folder containing a paper trail of 10 years of multiple frauds committed in her name by imposters and gets right to the point. “It’s just been a nightmare.” She says she’s had to…
Watsonville Community Hospital had a data breach — or two. It would be helpful to know which.
On December 8, 2024, DataBreaches reported that Watsonville Community Hospital in California was continuing to respond to what they referred to as a cyberattack on November 29. No gang had claimed responsibility at that point, patients hadn’t been notified yet, and the hospital wasn’t stating whether the attack involved encryption of any files. Weeks later,…