HCF Management healthcare facilities hit by ransomware attack; more than...
HCF Management manages a variety of healthcare facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including assisted living, rehabilitation services, long-term care, and hospice services. They are a for-profit...
View ArticleUnitedHealth estimates 190M people impacted by Change Healthcare cyberattack
Paige Minemyer reports: Change Healthcare now estimates that 190 million people were impacted in the massive cyberattack that took down its services nearly a year ago. UnitedHealth Group, Change’s...
View ArticleHumboldt Independent Practice Association’s breach notification leaves...
On November 11, 2024, Humboldt Independent Practice Association (Humboldt IPA) submitted a breach report to HHS that used a placeholder of 500 for the number of patients affected. All we knew from...
View ArticleSchool board approves letter to AG for PowerSchool data breach
Caleb M. Soptelean, The Sanford Herald, N.C. reports: The Lee County Schools Board of Education has requested that the North Carolina Attorney General pursue legal action against PowerSchool over a...
View ArticleHundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market
It’s been a while since DataBreaches posted a story about unerased drives with tons of sensitive information being purchased at a flea market or auction, but here we are again, and this time in the...
View ArticleDISA Global Solutions reports more than 3.3 million people affected by 2024...
On February 3, DataBreaches quoted a press release by BakerHostetler about a breach update from DISA Global Solutions that DISA had issued on January 23, 2025. BakerHostetler’s release was...
View ArticleMedusa Unveils Another 50TB of Stolen Data from HCRG Care Group, Giving...
After the Medusa gang reportedly demanded a $2 million ransom from UK healthcare and community services provider HCRG Care Group, HCRG confirmed they had a breach and said they were investigating. But...
View ArticleBluesight’s 2025 Breach Barometer Report Reveals Surge in Healthcare Data...
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Bluesight, the leading provider of inventory management, procurement, and compliance solutions for health systems and hospital pharmacies, today released...
View ArticleBusiness Associate breaches account for the largest percentage of breached...
As time permits, DataBreaches will take a deeper look at some of the findings reported in the Bluesight 2025 Breach Barometer. This post concerns business associates. In September 2016,...
View ArticleMedical Billing Vendor Sued Over Health Data Leak ‘Gold Mine’
Cassandre Coyer reports: Health-care billing company Medical Billing Specialists Inc. didn’t appropriately monitor its computer systems, failing to notice a data breach exposing swaths of its clients’...
View ArticleImprisoned IRS Contractor Leaked Information of Over 400,000 Taxpayers
James Lynch reports: Imprisoned former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn improperly leaked information of over 400,000 taxpayers, a far greater number than the agency previously disclosed. Acting IRS...
View ArticleExtensive US public school employee data compromise reported from Carruth...
SC Media reports: Oregon-based third-party retirement plan administrator Carruth Compliance Consulting had information from more than 40,000 public school teachers and employees in California,...
View ArticleFormer University of Michigan Football Quarterbacks Coach and Co-Offensive...
DETROIT – Former University of Michigan Co-Offensive Coordinator Matthew Weiss—age 42, of Ann Arbor—was charged today in a 24-count indictment alleging 14 counts of unauthorized access to computers and...
View ArticleNo need to hack when it’s leaking: OrthoMinds edition
Exposed database backups discovered and reported by researcher @JayelTee are now being reported in more mainstream news after OrthoMinds issued a press about the incident. Marianne Kolbasuk McGee...
View ArticleRansomwared NHS software supplier nabs £3M discount from ICO for good behavior
Connor Jones reports the latest update on the ransomware attack affecting Advanced Computer Software: The UK’s data protection watchdog is dishing out a £3.07 million ($3.95 million) fine to Advanced...
View ArticleEdmond cybersecurity CEO accused of planting malware on hospital computers
Kilee Thomas reports: Investigators said he walked right into St. Anthony Hospital and put malicious malware on an employee’s computer, which could have exposed critical patient data. Jeffrey Bowie is...
View ArticleData breach at collections vendor could affect some Bristol, Tennessee accounts
Another client of Nationwide Recovery Services has announced they were affected by the vendor’s breach. Robert Sorrell reports: BRISTOL, Tenn. — A data breach at a third-party vendor used by the city...
View Article45 CHS hospitals were affected by the Oracle Health outage
This is reportedly all resolved by now, but on April 25, Becker’s Hospital Review reported that dozens of hospitals affiliated with Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems were experiencing IT...
View ArticlePatients left in the dark almost a year after criminals leaked sensitive...
Alexander Martin reports: More than 11 months after a ransomware group published information from a U.K. pathology services company, the affected patients still have not been informed about what data...
View ArticleRIBridges firewall worked. But forensic report says hundreds of alarms went...
Alexander Castro reports: A cybercriminal group breached the state’s public benefits portal last July, lingered inside the network’s backend for five months, and triggered hundreds of firewall alerts...
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