Reuters reports: Planned Parenthood’s Los Angeles clinics suffered a ransomware attack in October and personal information of 400,000 patients was stolen, a spokesperson for the women’s reproductive healthcare organization said on Wednesday. Spokesperson John Erickson said an “unauthorized person” gained access to the Los Angeles affiliate’s network between Oct. 9 and 17 and installed ransomware…
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Quest’s ReproSource faces patient lawsuit over data breach impacting 350K patients
Jessica Davis reports: One month after notifying 350,000 patients of a potential theft of their protected health information, ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics has been sued by a patient over alleged security failings. ReproSource is a clinical laboratory for fertility specialists and a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics. First disclosed Oct. 8, an attacker hacked into the ReproSource network in…
Medsurant Health discloses ransomware incident, but not yet notifying patients
Medsurant Health in Pennsylvania recently notified HHS that 45,000 patients were impacted by a breach. The patients are not yet being notified, however, because it seems Medsurant is still trying to figure out who needs to be notified. In a statement published November 29, Medsurant stated that they received an email from a threat actor…
Three months after ransomware attack and two months after data was dumped, UHC has yet to notify patients in writing
On September 25, DataBreaches.net reported on a ransomware attack suffered by United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley (UHC). BleepingComputer had also reported on the incident the day before. Neither this site nor BleepingComputer had been able to get a statement from UHC at the time, but it was clear from the data dumped by…
Update: Eskenazi patients receive letter in the mail alerting them of cyber security breach 6 months ago
Bianca Reyes has an update on the Eskenazi ransomware incident that this site has been reporting on since August: Roughly three months after Eskenazi Health released a statement announcing a cyber security breach that compromised personal data, some patients are just now receiving that news in the mail. According to this release posted last month, Eskenazi…
Officials confirm patient data stolen in N.L. cyberattack
CBC News reports: Officials have confirmed that personal information of medical patients in Newfoundland and Labrador has been stolen in the cyberattack that has wreaked havoc on the provincial health-care system for over two weeks. While speaking with reporters on Monday, Justice Minister John Hogan said it was his understanding that both patient and employee…