Nathan Edwards reports: Multiple Queensland hospitals and aged care centres have been crippled by a cyber-attack, resulting in several disruptions to internal systems. 9News understands the entire UnitingCare Queensland internal IT system was attacked by ransomware software, with all UCQ hospitals and aged care homes working without IT systems until further notice. Among a number of aged care centres…
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CO: Peak Vista Community Health patient information on stolen computers
Caitlin Sullivan reports: On Thursday Peak Vista Community Health Centers announced that confidential information may have been stolen during a burglary. The burglary took place on March 7th at one of Peak Vista’s health facilities. Read more on KOAA.
Yale New Haven Health impacted by data breach at radiation software vendor
ABC17 reports: A data breach has impacted Yale New Haven Health. On Friday, the healthcare system announced that Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven is among many hospitals nationwide that were impacted by software issues at Elekta. Elekta is the company that provides the software to run linear accelerators for radiation treatment of cancer…
Maine brothers sue Northern Light for sharing their info with Blackbaud
Judy Harrison reports on a lawsuit stemming from the Blackbaud ransomware incident in 2020 that has been covered previously on this site. Two brothers from Holden have sued Northern Light Health over a data breach last May that left them vulnerable to identity theft and affected more than 650,000 people. The complaint, filed Tuesday in…
NC: Wake Forest University Counseling Center sends errant email to hundreds
Cooper Sullivan reports: On the morning of April 14, the University Counseling Center sent out a feedback survey to 860 email addresses — some students, faculty, staff and 68 accounts unaffiliated with the university — in which the recipient list was unencrypted and visible to all who had access to the email. About 10 minutes…
Manager of Hospice and Home Health Companies Sentenced to Prison for Role in $150 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
The following press release provides an update to a case previously noted on this site: A Texas man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy at the Merida Group, a chain of hospice and home health agencies throughout Texas, to falsely convince thousands of patients with long-term incurable…