Elsa Maishman reports: An investigation has been launched by Police Scotland after the medical records of more than 150 NHS Lothian staff members were “inappropriately accessed” by a colleague, the Scotsman reported. After a delay in searching for a record of the incident, due to NHS Lothian being unable to provide certain details over fears…
Category: Health Data
Ransomware attacks on medical entities continue: a laboratory in Italy and a health care service in New Mexico among latest victims
Ransomware attacks on medical entities continue. Today, we report on one attack in Italy and one in the U.S. And sadly, by the end of the day, there may well be more. Italy Marco De Felice (aka @amvinfe) reports that RagnarOK threat actors have attacked the Valdès Analysis Laboratory in Cagliari. The attack occurred on…
Villefranche-sur-Saône hospital victim of a computer attack
L’Obs with AFP report: After that of Dax , the Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône) hospital center announced on Monday February 15 that it was the victim of a “major” computer attack , detected at 4:30 am. This attack by the RYUK crypto-virus (a “ransomware” ) “strongly impacts” the sites of Villefranche, Tarare and Trévoux of the North West Hospital,…
Hacker attack on the Urological Clinic Munich Planegg
Martin Bernstein reports (translation): The Urological Clinic Munich Planegg(UKMP) and its patients recently fell victim to a hacker attack. This emerges from an information letter that the clinic sent out to patients in early February. It is obliged to do so according to the General Data Protection Regulation. The cyber attack occurred in mid-January. The clinic management did not respond to a…
Preliminary settlement approved in 21st Century Oncology 2015 breach case
Long-time readers may remember that 21st Century Oncology had a slew of serious problems going back to 2013 including a rogue employee-related breach that they were alerted to by law enforcement, and litigation under the False Claims Act that resulted in them paying $34.7 million for billing for medically unnecessary tests. But of note, in…
mHealth Apps Expose Millions to Cyberattacks
Becky Bracken reports: Some 23 million mobile health (mHealth) application users are exposed to application programming interface (API) attacks that could expose sensitive information, according to researchers. Generally speaking, APIs are an intermediary between applications that defines how they can talk to one another and allowing them to swap information. Researcher Alissa Knight with Approov…