Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A cloud services firm has turned over to a New York hospital alliance the patient data stolen in an August ransomware attack by the notorious LockBit gang. The hospital group – North Star Health Alliance – had filed a lawsuit against LockBit in November as a legal maneuver to force the…
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Bluewater Health getting new, more secure hospital info system
Tyler Kula reports: Bluewater Health, hardest hit by a cyberattack on five Southwestern Ontario hospitals last fall, had a relatively dated system for storing and sharing patient information at the time, Bluewater Health’s board chairperson says. “It did make a difference,” said Margaret Dragan, about the hospital group’s 20-plus-year-old hospital information system that’s been eyed for…
Quantum Radiology cyber attack: Patients kept in the dark about nature of attack while employees are being harassed by attackers
Here’s a great way to destroy any trust your patients might have in you. Madeleine Damo reports: Staff at a western Sydney radiologist – recently hit with a cyber attack – were told to tell concerned patients the breach was “an operational IT issue”, while also fielding harassing phone calls from hackers themselves. Imaging and diagnostics…
Ransomware gang targets nonprofit providing clean water to world’s poorest
Alexander Martin reports: Water for People, a nonprofit that aims to improve access to clean water for people whose health is threatened by a lack of it for drinking and sanitation, is the latest organization to have been hit by ransomware criminals. The ransomware-as-a-service gang Medusa listed Water for People on its darknet site Thursday…
Fertility Test Lab Will Pay $1.25M to Settle Breach Lawsuit
In 2021, Quest-owned ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics disclosed a ransomware attack in August potentially affecting 350,000 patients. One month after disclosure, they were sued. Now Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports that there is a settlement. A Massachusetts federal court preliminarily approved the proposed settlement on Wednesday. The proposed class action litigation, which consolidated two similar lawsuits against…
Ransomware wrecks Paraguay’s largest telco
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: If you’re not subscribed to Catalin Cimpanu’s Risky Business Newsletter, you’re missing out. From the newsletter: A ransomware attack has wreaked havoc inside the network of Tigo, the largest mobile operator and internet service provider in Paraguay. The incident took place last Thursday, January 4, and…