Updated March 9: This incident subsequently appeared on HHS’s public breach tool as having been reported to HHS on February 19 and impacting 368,100 patients. Brian Planalp reports: Kroger is informing some customers and associates that a third-party software company it uses for data services recently suffered a data breach. Kroger’s own IT systems were not…
Category: Health Data
CIS launches no-cost ransomware service for U.S. hospitals
Kat Jerich reports: The nonprofit Center for Internet Security announced this week that it had launched a no-cost ransomware protection service for private hospitals in the United States. The Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting service, which is already available for public hospitals, health departments and healthcare organizations, uses Enterprise Threat Protector software from the cybersecurity…
UK: Breach of NHS Lothian colleague’s medical records linked to staff member at Edinburgh Royal Hospital
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…
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…