Sara Morrison reports: If you got a Covid-19 test at Walgreens, your personal data — including your name, date of birth, gender identity, phone number, address, and email — was left on the open web for potentially anyone to see and for the multiple ad trackers on Walgreens’ site to collect. In some cases, even…
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TX: Medical provider waited months to send patients letters about ransomware attack
This is a follow-up to an incident first reported on this site back in May. Jeremy Rogalski reports: HOUSTON — A local health care provider attacked by a ransomware virus did not send letters to patients informing them of the data breach for months, KHOU 11 Investigates has confirmed. Gastroenterology Consultants mailed notices to more than 161,000…
UAE: Moorfields Eye Hospital in Dubai sees more staff and patient data dumped
In August, threat actors calling themselves AvosLocker announced that they had attacked Moorfields NHS UK & Dubai. DataBreaches.net’s investigation at that point indicated that the data they provided as proof came from the Dubai hospital and did not involve any UK personnel or patients. In a statement to this site, Moorfields confirmed that there had…
Missouri Delta Medical Center silent about patient data dump and claimed ransomware attack
“Full ICU at Missouri Delta Medical Center, workers scramble to keep up with COVID-19 surge,” a headline informed us earlier this week. And if they weren’t struggling enough already, it appears that Missouri Delta Medical Center (MDMC) might also be dealing with a ransomware attack by Hive threat actors. So far, however, MDMC has been…
All of Desert Wells Family Medicine patients’ electronic health records were corrupted and unrecoverable from ransomware attack
On August 30, HHS added Queen Creek Medical Center d/b/a Desert Wells Family Medicine in Arizona to its public breach tool. The entity had reported that 35,000 patients were impacted by a breach involving a hack of the network. We now have more details on that incident available thanks to a public disclosure of their…
Th: Hacker steals 40,000 patients’ data from kidney hospital
It is the second hospital report in as many days. This one, however, is clearly a ransomware attack and unlike the first hospital attack, no one is making any attempt to minimize this one as the theft of patient data is impacting treatment. The Bangkok Post reports: The personal details of more than 40,000 patients…