Kathleen Saylors and Jennifer La Grassa report: A database containing information on 5.6 million patient visits to Bluewater Health and the social insurance numbers of as many as 1,446 Chatham-Kent Health Alliance employees are among the data taken in the ransomware attack on five southwestern Ontario hospitals, officials said in a lengthy update Monday. […] According to…
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Update: Sensitive patient data leaked from TransForm ransomware incident; hospitals and centers affected
As predicted, Daixin has leaked the third part of the data they exfiltrated from TransForm and Canadian healthcare entities. DataBreaches reported the first leak when Daixin publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. The second leak followed two days later, and less than one day later, the third tranche dropped. As with the first two leaks,…
Update: Daixin leaks more data from Bluewater Health and other hospitals; databases yet to be leaked
As some will likely have already noticed, Daixin Team released the second part of the data leak from five hospitals in Ontario that have IT services provided by TransForm SSO. The first leak, containing many patient records, was previously reported by DataBreaches on November 1. Skimming the second tranche, DataBreaches noted a lot of internal…
Australian Clinical Labs to face court over 2022 data breach
David Hollingworth reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner believes Australian Clinical Labs did not adequately protect personal data, leading to an increased risk of “identity theft, extortion and financial crime”. When MedLabs pathology was hacked in February 2022, 223,000 Australians had their personal information exposed on the darknet, including credit card details and passport…
AU: ‘Curious’ pharmacist spied on patient records at The Alfred
Lachlan Abbott reports: About 7000 Alfred Health patients are victims of a privacy breach after a pharmacist working at Victoria’s leading trauma hospital accessed personal medical records without authorisation. Alfred Health wrote to every patient affected in a letter sent on Monday, seen by The Age, which said the pharmacist was dismissed after an investigation, launched…
SG: Healthcare institutions website outage did not disrupt critical service but it does shake confidence
Carmen Sin reports from Singapore: The websites of major public hospitals, polyclinics and healthcare clusters in Singapore could not be accessed for more than seven hours on Wednesday after they crashed at about 9.20am. Access was restored at about 4.30pm but, until then, users were unable to access the websites of Singapore General Hospital, Tan…