Palawan News reports: The Palawan Medical Mission Group Multipurpose Cooperative (PMMGPMC), operator of the Coop Hospital in Puerto Princesa City, confirmed Thursday night that it is investigating a reported ransomware attack allegedly carried out by the cybercriminal group Qilin. The confirmation came in a public advisory following claims that Qilin, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that…
Category: Health Data
Evoke Wellness to Pay $1.9 Million to Settle FTC Claims That They Misled Consumers Seeking Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Evoke allegedly used Google ads and telemarketing to pretend to be other clinics; court order permanently bans them from similar deceptive conduct On June 10, DataBreaches sent Evoke Wellness in Hilliard, Ohio an inquiry about an insider-wrongdoing breach reported in Ohio media but not mentioned on their website. There has been no reply as of…
Former Hilliard treatment center employee accused of selling patient data on dark web
In case you were looking for yet another reminder of the insider threat in the healthcare sector, here’s a report from WBNS in Ohio: Authorities in Hilliard are investigating a widespread fraud and identity theft case involving a former employee of a local addiction treatment center who allegedly sold patients’ private data on the dark…
Data breach of patient info ends in firing of Miami hospital employee
Michelle Marchante provides today’s reminder of the insider threat: More than 2,000 patients at Jackson Health System had their personal data, including names, address and medical information, accessed in a lengthy breach that spanned nearly five years. The data breach was conducted by a Jackson employee who accessed the information to promote a personal healthcare…
Almost one year later, U.S. Dermatology Partners is still not being very transparent about their 2024 breach
U.S. Dermatology Partners, which has over 100 locations across eight states, recently posted a notice of a data security incident on its website. As stated in their notice: On June 19, 2024, USDP experienced a network disruption. Upon detecting the incident, we quickly took steps to secure our network, immediately initiated our incident response processes…
Ransomware group Gunra claims to have exfiltrated 450 million patient records from American Hospital Dubai (1)
A relatively new ransomware group calling themself “Gunra” has shown it has no compunction about attacking hospitals. They have reportedly locked — and have started leaking information from — the American Hospital in Dubai (AHD). In its first listing concerning this attack, Gunra claimed to have exfiltrated the entire Cerner Millenium database (now known as…