Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Washington suffered a ransomware attack in 2019. Despite their best efforts, not all data was recoverable. And not surprisingly in our litigious society, a lawsuit was filed against it. According to a proposed settlement announced this week, the lawsuit claims that Grays Harbor was responsible for the Data Incident and…
Category: Health Data
Hackers obtain Covid-19 patient database in protest at treatment of Indian health workers
Joe Wallen reports: Hackers claim they have accessed the personal data of 80,000 Covid-19 patients in New Delhi stored on a local government website, in protest at the treatment of beleaguered healthcare workers. The Kerala Cyber Hackers group says it broke into the Delhi Government’s Delhi State Health Mission website in less than 10 minutes on Saturday night. Read…
UnityPoint Health Reaches $2.8M Settlement Over 2018 Data Breach
There’s an update to the litigation stemming from two UnityPoint Health phishing incidents that were discovered within months of each other in 2018. Part of the lawsuit was thrown out in 2019, but negligence claims were allowed to go forward. Not surprisingly, that seemed to result in a settlement. Jessica Davis reports: Iowa Health System,…
ZA: Hackers strike at Life Healthcare, extent of data breach yet to be assessed
I missed this one a few weeks ago, it seems. On June 9, CGTN Africa reported: South Africa’s Life Healthcare said on Tuesday its southern African operation was hit by a cyber attack affecting its admissions systems, business processing systems and email servers, but is yet to determine the extent to which data has been…
PH: Unauthorized disclosure of COVID-19 patients’ identities continues
Nikko Dizon reports: As the number of coronavirus cases in the Philippines steadily increased from mid-March to late May, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) had been investigating 22 complaints of privacy breaches involving more than 150 COVID-19 patients, as well as suspected and probable cases. In at least 7 of these cases, the breach was committed…
Magellan ransomware attack impacted multiple subsidiaries and affiliates (UPDATE 2)
On May 12, DataBreaches.net reported that Magellan Health was notifying an unspecified number of individuals as a result of a ransomware attack. At the time they wrote their notification letter, Magellan stated that investigators had found that a subset of data had been exfiltrated from a single corporate server. As explained in their first notification…