Bleeping Computer reports:
Digital healthcare company iRhythm Holdings has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole patients’ personal and health information stored on third-party-hosted business applications.
The company says its cardiac monitoring service has been used to analyze more than 2 billion hours of curated heartbeat data from over 12 million patients.
In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, iRhythm said it discovered the incident one day earlier, prompting it to launch an investigation with external cybersecurity experts and activate its cybersecurity response plan to contain the breach.
Read more at BleepingComputer.
No group has publicly claimed responsibility for the attack and the third-party-hosted applications have not been named.
