Vendor News, Healthcare, News
May 01, 2025
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Ctrl+Alt+Disaster: How Oracle techies ‘wrong click’ brought 45 out of 72 CHS hospitals to their knees for 5 days

The Economic Times reports: A software malfunction triggered by Oracle engineers led to a five-day outage at multiple Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals last week, forcing several facilities to switch to paper records after losing access to their digital systems. The disruption began on 23 April during scheduled maintenance, when Oracle personnel mistakenly deleted storage […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare
April 12, 2025
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Lab provider for Planned Parenthood discloses breach affecting 1.6 million people

The Record reports: A lab company providing services to some Planned Parenthood centers disclosed a data breach on Friday impacting about 1.6 million people. Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) said it initially discovered the cyberattack on October 27 and began an investigation that was completed in February.  The stolen data includes medical information like dates of […]

Healthcare, News
March 29, 2025
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Global Healthcare Faces Unprecedented Cybersecurity Crisis: Top 10 Countries at Highest Risk

Black Book Market Research unveiled results from its comprehensive Q1 2025 Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey of 1,200 healthcare administrators. The 2025 Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Risk ranking identified the United States, India, Brazil, China, Russia, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico as the 10 countries facing the greatest cybersecurity threats. Leading the list, the […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare
February 21, 2025
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Australian IVF Giant Genea Discloses Cybersecurity Incident Exposing Company Data

TechNadu reports: Genea, one of Australia’s leading fertility service providers, has revealed a cybersecurity breach that disrupted patient services and raised concerns about the potential exposure of sensitive information.   The company, which operates 21 clinics nationwide, confirmed the incident in a statement on its website on Wednesday. While Genea confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed its data, […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, News
December 21, 2024
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Ascension reveals a May ransomware attack affected 5.6 million patients (1)

It took them months to update their report, but Ascension has now disclosed how many patients were affected by a ransomware attack they disclosed earlier this year. Bleeping Computer reports: ​Ascension, one of the largest private U.S. healthcare systems, is notifying nearly 5.6 million patients and employees that their personal and health data was stolen […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare
December 18, 2024
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Texas Tech University System data breach impacts 1.4 million patients

Another major US hospital system recently suffered a cyberattack. Bleeping Computer reported: The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and its El Paso counterpart suffered a cyberattack that disrupted computer systems and applications, potentially exposing the data of 1.4 million patients. The organization is a public, academic health institution that is part of the Texas Tech […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, News
December 10, 2024
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HealthAlliance of Hudson Valley Pays $550,000 to NYS; Failed to Address a Known Cybersecurity Vulnerability

New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced another data security enforcement settlement yesterday. HIPAA Journal writes: A New York healthcare provider that experienced a breach of the personal and protected health information of 242,641 New Yorkers has been ordered to pay a financial penalty of $550,000 and take steps to strengthen its data security […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, News
November 29, 2024
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Ransom gang claims attack on NHS Alder Hey Children’s Hospital; Second attack on an NHS Trust this month

No ransomware gang has claimed responsiblity for the November 21 attack on the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust but a second attack on a children’s hospital is also causing significant problems. The Register reports: The attack on Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is apparently unconnected […]