Patients not told their nude photos had been leaked on the internet. There’s a follow-up on one of the plastic surgery ransomware attacks this site first reported in October 2023 after the Hunters International threat actors added Jaime S. Schwartz, MD, to their leak site with proof of claims. At the time, Dr. Schwartz’s practice…
Category: Health Data
Niva Bupa investigates alleged data leak after cyber threat
Aman Shukla reports: Niva Bupa Health Insurance Company Ltd has recently informed exchanges that the company received an email from an anonymous sender claiming a potential customer data breach. The company is actively investigating the matter and implementing preventive measures to mitigate risks. … In the exchange filing, the company shared, “We have received communication(s)…
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Thursday edition: DM Clinical Research
Another day, another massive leak. Researcher Jeremiah Fowler reports that he found unsecured data with 1,674,218 records belonging to DM Clinical Research. DM Clinical Research is a Texas-based network of more than 24 multi-therapeutic clinical trial sites involved in research on vaccines, internal medicine, pediatrics, gastroenterology, psychiatry, neurology, women’s health, and more. DM Clinical Research’s…
Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider
Iain Thomson reports: HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware gang, which is threatening to leak what’s claimed to be stolen internal records unless a substantial ransom is paid. Previously known as Virgin Care and now owned by Twenty20 Capital, HCRG runs child and…
Major IVF provider Genea suffers ‘cyber incident’ (1)
Update: On February 24, 2025, the Termite ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack on Genea. On their darkweb leak site, they claim to have ~700gb of data from company’s servers such as confidential, personal data of clients. They posted a number of screenshots with patient records as proof of claims. ACS Information Age…
Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market
It’s been a while since DataBreaches posted a story about unerased drives with tons of sensitive information being purchased at a flea market or auction, but here we are again, and this time in the Netherlands. Connor Jones reports: Robert Polet, a 62-year-old techie and apparent bargain hunter from Breda, a city in the southern…