Collaborate Disseminate
Carmen Sin reports from Singapore: The websites of major public hospitals, polyclinics and healthcare clusters in Singapore could not be accessed for more than seven hours on Wednesday after they crashed at about 9.20am. Access was restored at about 4…. Continue reading SG: Healthcare institutions website outage did not disrupt critical service but it does shake confidence
Advarra describes itself as providing integrated solutions to safeguard trial participants, empowering clinical sites, ensuring compliance, and optimizing research performance for thousands of sponsors, contract research organizations, institutions, ac… Continue reading Exclusive: Advarra hacked, threat actors threatening to leak data
Ari Natter reports: A Russian-speaking hacking group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice as part of the sprawling MOVEit hack last summer, according to a report on the w… Continue reading Hackers Accessed 632,000 Email Addresses at US Justice, Defense Departments
ABC reports: Thousands of South Australian public health patients are being contacted over a data breach of a third-party run portal. The state government said “unintentional human error” by patient portal Personify Care allowed an “u… Continue reading South Australian health patients caught up in data breach of third-party platform Personify Care
Meagan DeLaurier reports: An update on service interruptions at local hospitals. On Monday, it was reported that Windsor Regional Hospital, Hotel Dieu Grace, Erie Shores Healthcare, Hospice of Windsor-Essex and the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance were exp… Continue reading Cyber Attack Causing Service Interruptions At Ontario Hospitals
On September 24, Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCH) in Illinois notified HHS of a breach. At the time, CCH reported that 500 patients were affected. The “500” entry is usually just a marker to indicate that the entity knows that … Continue reading Cook County Health and Hospitals System terminates relationship with medical transcription service, notifying patients of breach
Steven Ardary reports: A South Carolina software company has agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement for a 2020 ransomware event that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers in the United States. South Carolina Attorney General Al… Continue reading Blackbaud settles breach probe by states for nearly $50M
Christopher Brown reports: More than 100 lawsuits arising from a cyberattack on Progress Software Corp.‘s MOVEit file transfer application will be consolidated in federal court in Massachusetts, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said. Cent… Continue reading MOVEit Data Breach Lawsuits Sent to Massachusetts Federal Court
Add Aretis Health LLC to the list of entities affected by the MOVEit breach. Aretis performs billing functions for NorthStar Anesthesia, and made notification to patients and HHS on behalf of the following entities: AmSol Physicians of Elkin, NC, PLLC … Continue reading Aretis Health LLC notifies patients of 50 entities about MOVEit breach
Progress Software WS_FTP Critical Vulnerabilities Executive Summary Progress Software, the maker of the MOVEit file transfer software which was widely exploited by the CL0P ransomware-as-a-service (Raas) group, has released a new advisory regarding mul… Continue reading HC3: Sector Alert Progress Software WS_FTP Critical Vulnerabilities