Bharat Sharma reports: After a cyberattack on AIIMS knocked out its servers, a threat actor is selling medical records of patients of a Tamil Nadu-based multispecialty hospital. A report released by CloudSEK claims that patient data of Sree Saran Medical Centre is on sale by a threat actor. On November 22, 2022, CloudSEK discovered a post…
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Nurse removed confidential patient files from three nursing homes in Cork and Kerry
Sean McCarthaigh reports: A registered nurse had admitted being guilty of professional misconduct over the unauthorised taking of a large number of confidential patient records and medical files from three nursing homes where she worked in Kerry and Cork. The nurse, Rasa Leliene, appeared before a fitness-to-practise inquiry of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of…
Connexin Software notifies parents of 2.2 million pediatric patients of hack
Connexin Software, a business associate to numerous pediatric practices, recently notified HHS that it experienced a breach that affected 2,216,365 patients. One thing DataBreaches noted with interest in their substitute notice below is their statement that an unauthorized individual was able to access an offline set of patient data used for data conversion and troubleshooting. …
FL: South Walton Fire District notifies patients of breach
On May 30, South Walton Fire District learned of unauthorized access to their network. Investigation revealed that patients’ potentially affected information included: names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, treatment dates, medical diagnostic and treatment information, and health insurance information for patients transported by or treated by SWFD. Local media reports those potentially at risk…
Community Health Network notifies patients of meta pixel breach
Community Health Network in Indiana has become the latest healthcare entity to notify patients that their protected health information was transmitted via trackers on their website from Google and Meta. Their FAQ page attempts to explain it in basic English and does a good job, but there’s no getting around this: Any individual who visited…
Doctors Center Hospital reports 1.2 million patients affected by ransomware attack
On some as yet undisclosed date, Doctors Center Hospital in Puerto Rico became the victim of a relatively new ransomware group calling themselves Project Relic. To date, Doctors Center Hospital (DCH) has not responded to inquiries sent to it by DataBreaches on November 11 and November 12, and their email appeared to be out of…