Jennifer Korn reports: The Food and Drug Administration will now require medical devices meet specific cybersecurity guidelines after years of concerns that a growing number of internet-connected products used by hospitals and healthcare providers could be hit by hacks and ransomware attacks. Under FDA guidance issued this week, all new medical device applicants must now submit a…
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Florida city water cyber incident allegedly caused by employee error
There is an update to a story posted on DataBreaches in 2021 about a scary-sounding attempt to hack and control the water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida. Today, Chris Teale reports that no, it wasn’t that at all. It was just an employee clicking on some wrong buttons before he informed his supervisor of his…
Tracking the Adelanto Healthcare Ventures breach on DataBreaches.net
Yesterday, DataBreaches reported that a vendor’s breach discovered in November 2021 was first being disclosed by a number of hospitals. Rather than do separate posts as each additional hospital becomes known, you can bookmark that post, where you can scroll down and find updates as DataBreaches becomes aware of them. At the present time, we…
Nine months after ransomware attack, Atlantic Dialysis Management Services notifies patients and regulators
In August 2022, DataBreaches reported a ransomware attack on Atlantic Dialysis Management Services (ADMS) by Snatch Team. DataBreaches first learned of the breach in June 2022, when Snatch Team named ADMS on their leak site. Between then and August 16, when DataBreaches reported on the incident, ADMS ignored requests from this site for information about…
Data of 2 million Dutch people leaked, software supplier taken to court
More on a breach noted earlier today that affected 780,000 railway users. Now NU.nl reports that a software firm is being taken to court by one of the marketing firms affected (machine translation): The personal data of about two million Dutch people have been exposed in recent days due to a data breach. It concerns a…
Hospitals owned by Universal Health Services start filing breach reports about Adelanto HealthCare Ventures breach in 2021 (Update5)
Happening now: A number of hospitals are filing breach notices this week that appear to be linked to a breach at Adelanto HealthCare Ventures (AHCV) in 2021. The hospitals are all owned by Universal Health Services LLC (UHS). So far, DataBreaches has found McAllen Hospitals, LP d/b/a South Texas Health System, Doctors Hospital of Laredo,…