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Georgia-based Augusta University Health has admitted for becoming the victim of a data breach back in 2017. In the data breach, personal data of more than 417,000 patients, students, and faculty members got leaked. The breach resulted from a phishing attack. Augusta University informed about the breach in a message that read: “It is with […]
SingHealth, the largest health care institution in Singapore has suffered a massive data breach in which records of over 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth’s polyclinics and clinics between from May 1, 2015, to July 4 this year – One of the victims of the breach is the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong while prescription details of 160,000 patients including […]
Private records of millions of patients could be at risk following the breach. Security experts have been warning about expected cyber-attacks on healthcare industry since last year’s huge hack-attack on Florida based Medicaid in which private data of nearly 30,000 patients were exposed…. and we have another victim already. According to a DailyMail’s report, cybercriminals […]
Guess what happens one day that a busy hospital stops functioning. All the data related to the patient and treatment details seize to work. There is no output, and they all stand still. Yes, the computerized system of the environment has choked, and all the electronic medical records are locked. A hacker could barge into […]
It’s another day with yet another Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket exposing sensitive user data to the public. IT security researchers at Kromtech Security discovered an unprotected Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket available for public access. The bucket contained personal and sensitive data of more than 150,000 patients from Patient Home Monitoring (PHM) healthcare firm (Lafayette, Louisiana, United States) […]
This without a doubt is the second largest health data breach caused by a ransomware attack. An Oaks, Philadelphia based women’s healthcare clinic ‘Women’s Health Care Group of PA’ (WHCGPA) was reportedly attacked with ransomware. On July 18, a security notice was posted by the clinic that revealed details about the attack. As per the […]
The DDoS attacks caused a loss of hundreds of thousand dollars in 2014- He claimed the attacks were against hospital’s alleged bad treatment of youth with serious emotional, psychological and medical problems. Earlier last week on Wednesday, a hacker by the name of Martin Gottesfeld was charged with targeting Boston Children’s Hospital and the Wayside Youth […]
The DarkOverlord hackers who were previously active on the darknet marketplaces have now hacked WestPark Capital investment bank and demanded ransom or else data will be leaked. Recently, a Californian investment bank, WestPark Capital came under a threat when it realized that a group of hackers has infiltrated their database. The hackers go by the name […]
Anonymous defaced four Italian healthcare websites and also dumped data on the Internet — Anonymous is not happy with the government’s stand on the way ADHD patients are being treated. The Italian breach of online hacktivist group Anonymous conducted a cyber attack on four Italian healthcare websites and defaced them with a message of their own. The […]
Researchers have found Locky Ransomware being used against healthcare industry in the United States — It’s time for the cyber security firms to come up with proper security measures! Medical centers and hospitals in the United States have become lucrative targets for malicious actors and scammers. In the latest of these scam campaigns to be identified […]
Another day another hack: This time it’s the Phoenix, Arizona-based Banner Health. Banner Health, a non-profit healthcare organization suffered a massive data breach on 17th June 2016 in which records of 3.7 million patients and staff were stolen. The organization noticed suspicious activities on their computers leading to two cyber attacks (between 7th may and June 23rd) […]
The hacker is asking over $700,000 for the whole data. A hacker that goes by the name of TheDarkOverlord has put up for sale on the Dark Web three databases stolen from three healthcare institutions in the US. The hacker is selling the data on The Real Deal marketplace, and he says he breached these companies […]