Rite Aid was one of numerous entities affected by the massive MOVEit breach. In July, they disclosed that 24,400 patients’ pharmacy information including medication names and dates of fill, prescriber information and limited insurance information was involved. They were notified by their vendor of the breach on May 31. Now it is reportedly being sued,…
Category: Health Data
More than a year later, Lifeline Health Systems notifies 75,000 people of a data breach
Lifeline Health Systems is a HIPAA-covered entity, although not all the data involved in their 2022 breach was protected health information. Some of the data related to employees and family members. But here’s the timeline Lifeline provides in their notification template: On August 6, 2022, we identified unusual network activity. We immediately initiated our incident…
Do IT Consultants victim of attack by Ragnar_Locker
On September 2, Ragnar_Locker added Do IT Consultants in Canada to their “Wall of Shame.” For its listing, they wrote: Due to high level negligence and careless network security of DO IT employees, has been allowed a huge leak which affected on clients of the DO IT company. No matter that they are an IT…
The Government Isn’t Sure How to Get Small Hospitals to Take Cybersecurity Seriously
Eric Geller reports: The U.S. government is struggling to convince hospitals that they need to spend time and money fighting hackers and provide useful advice to them, a problem that could have lethal consequences as the country’s ransomware crisis rages on. “I don’t think we’ve figured out how to talk to the small and medium-sized…
Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists notifies 243,000 patients of cyberattack
On April 1, DataBreaches reached out to Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists (BOS) in Mississippi to ask about a claim by Abyss threat actors that they had compromised BOS. BOS never replied. But now, five months later, BOS submitted a breach notification to the Maine Attorney General’s Office. The notification indicates that 242,986 people were affected by…
Janssen health database breached in cyber incident
Stefanie Schappert reports: IBM announced Wednesday that an unauthorized party breached the patient healthcare database it manages for the Johnson & Johnson-owned Janssen CarePath platform. Many of the patients are or have been treated for serious diseases, such as cancer. […] IBM says the breach exposed the sensitive information of an undisclosed number of patients,…