Attacks on revenue cycle management (RCM) firms and debt collection firms often provide criminals with a wealth of personal and protected health information because successfully compromising one billing vendor may give access to the sensitive data of numerous covered entities or clients. Horizon Healthcare RCM (“Horizon”) in Indiana is the latest RCM to disclose that…
Category: Malware
Patient death at London hospital linked to cyber attack on NHS
Rebecca Whittaker reports: The death of a patient has been linked to a cyber-attack on the NHS last year. Cyber criminals attacked two major NHS trusts causing more than 1,000 cancer treatment delays, 2,000 outpatient appointments to be cancelled and more than 1,000 operations postponed. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said on Wednesday; a patient died during the cyber…
Liberty Township in Ohio has recovered its network after a ransomware attack
With so many cyberattacks being disclosed every day, a lof ot them never get reported on in the media. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but some of them do contain sensitive personal information or could expose people — or the entity itself — to increased risk of future attacks. One such incident involved Liberty Township…
MNGI Digestive Health settles class action lawsuit stemming from BlackCat attack
MNGI Digestive Health, a multi-location gastroenterology practice in Minnesota, received preliminary court approval on May 7 to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from an August 2023 cyberattack. The incident was first reported on DataBreaches on September 25, 2023, but had been discovered by MNGI on August 25, 2023, after the BlackCat (AlphV) ransomware gang…
Four REvil ransomware members released after time served on carding charges
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Four REvil ransomware members arrested in January 2022 were released by Russia on time served after they pleaded guilty to carding and malware distribution charges. As they confirmed, Andrey Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, Roman Muromsky, and Dmitry Korotayev were involved in the Revil gang’s carding activities between October 2015 and January 2022, according…
McLaren provides written notice to 743,131 patients after ransomware attack in July 2024 (2)
On August 5, 2024, McLaren Healthcare became aware of suspicious activity affecting McLaren Health Care and Karmanos Cancer Institute computer systems. In an early statement about the incident, McLaren indicated that the attack affected IT systems across its 13 hospitals, cancer treatment centers, surgery centers, and clinics. In an August 12 update, McLaren reported that…