Tonya Riley reports: IBM Corp. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. face a Florida man’s proposed class action over an August data breach that potentially exposed the personal health information of more than a half-million people. Plaintiff Jarvis Bryant Jenkins alleged the companies were negligent regarding the safety of his sensitive health records,…
Category: Health Data
“Network outages” experienced on Thanksgiving result in ER diversions in Idaho and Texas
Mary Boyle reports that Portneuf Medical Center in Idaho suffered a network outage on Thanksgiving. “The hospital’s IT team is working to determine the impact of the outage and restore access to the network. Meanwhile, the healthcare provider is following “established downtime protocols,” Keating said. This includes diverting patients from the emergency room as a…
The big bad BlackCat tries to bully Hampton-Newport News CSB. Shame on BlackCat.
Hampton-Newport News CSB was recently added to AlphV’s leak site with a message about how they had stolen over 800 GB of sensitive data. “Appoint a responsible person to negotiate and let’s get down to business. Otherwise, every client will see how you have neglected their personal information and will have a detailed plan on…
Mission Community Hospital issues notification for May 1 ransomware attack
Deanco Healthcare LLC, which does business as Mission Community Hospital (MCH) in California, has issued a breach notification about a ransomware attack it discovered in early May. According to their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office, MCH was alerted to potential unauthorized access to its IT network on May 1, 2023. Investigation confirmed that…
Meow Leaks claims attack on Vanderbilt University Medical Center (3)
Meow Leaks has added Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Tennessee to their leak site, and has dumped what they claim is 100% of the data they exfiltrated. “The hack was 02/11/23 The company will be hacked again!” they announced on November 18. The leak was posted in two parts, each described as “SQL,”…
Welltok data breach exposes data of 8.5 million US patients
Bill Toulas reports: Healthcare SaaS provider Welltok is warning that a data breach exposed the personal data of nearly 8.5 million patients in the U.S. after a file transfer program used by the company was hacked in a data theft attack. Bill’s article has some good information in it, and you can read more at…