Denis Campbell and Dan Milmo report: A cyber-attack thought to have been carried out by a Russian group has forced London NHS hospitals to resurrect long-discarded paper records systems in which porters hand-deliver blood test results because IT networks are disrupted. Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust (GSTT) has gone back to using paper, rather than computers, to…
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Critical Incident: London Hospitals Cancel Operations Following Ransomware Incident at Synnovis
James Coker reports: Leading London hospitals have been forced to cancel operations and divert emergency patients following a cyber-attack on a critical supplier. The incident has affected Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts and primary care services in South East London, according to a statement from NHS England on June 4….
More than 540,000 patients notified so far about Cencora/Lash Group data breach (9)
– Only partial numbers so far – Only partial list of clients so far – No group has as yet claimed responsibility for the hack and data exfiltration As the week draws to a close, clients of Cencora and The Lash Group have been submitting breach notifications to state attorneys general. DataBreaches reported in February…
FTC Finalizes Order with Blackbaud Related to Allegations the Firm’s Security Failures Led to Data Breach
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order against Blackbaud Inc. settling allegations that its lax security practices allowed a hacker to breach the company’s network and access the personal data of millions of consumers including Social Security and bank account numbers. In a complaint first announced in February 2024, the FTC charged that the South Carolina firm,…
WebTPA Employer Services notifies 2.4 million of April 2023 hack.
WebTPA is a medical claims administrator for health insurance and benefits plans. On December 28, 2023, the Texas firm discovered that they had experienced a data security incident involving certain systems on their network. Subsequent investigation concluded that an unauthorized actor may have exfiltrated personal information between April 18 and April 23, 2023. WebTPA’s clients…
Au: Electronic prescription provider MediSecure victim of ‘large-scale’ data breach, ‘personal and health information’ at risk
Daniel Jeffrey reports: Electronic prescription provider MediSecure has fallen victim to a “large scale” data breach, potentially putting Australians’ private medical information at risk and sparking a national approach from the federal government. The company released a statement on its website – which is now otherwise inactive – this afternoon confirming the breach involved “personal and…