Healthcare

Jeremy Fowler reports: Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained nearly 1.3 million records, which included COVID-19 testing information and personally identifiable information such as the patient’s name, date of birth, and passport number. The publicly exposed database contained an estimated 1.3 million records that included 118,441 certificates, […]

The Record reports: A ransomware attack in May exposed 2.5 million patients of hospitals connected to healthcare giant Norton Healthcare. In notices submitted to regulators in Maine and California last week, the company said it discovered the attack on May 9 and later confirmed that it was dealing with a ransomware incident. After an investigation, the company said the […]

TechCrunch reports: housands of exposed servers are spilling the medical records and personal health information of millions of patients due to security weaknesses in a decades-old industry standard designed for storing and sharing medical images, researchers have warned. This standard, known as Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, or DICOM for short, is the internationally recognized […]

On December 6,  Fresenius Medical Care AG  filed Form 6-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing disclosed a data breach: On September 29, 2023, Cardiovascular Consultants, Ltd. (CVC), a subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care AG (the Company) located in the United States (U.S.), became aware that some of its computer systems in the U.S. were […]