Southwestern Ontario hospitals will rebuild network from scratch amid fallout from cyberattack; more data leaked

CBC reports: All five southwestern Ontario hospitals impacted by a cyberattack just over two weeks ago will rebuild their networks from scratch, the hospitals say in an update Wednesday. But the hospitals also say the investigation into precisely whose… Continue reading Southwestern Ontario hospitals will rebuild network from scratch amid fallout from cyberattack; more data leaked

Info from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack on Ontario hospital

Kathleen Saylors and Jennifer La Grassa report: A database containing information on 5.6 million patient visits to Bluewater Health and the social insurance numbers of as many as 1,446 Chatham-Kent Health Alliance employees are among the data taken in … Continue reading Info from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack on Ontario hospital

Update: Sensitive patient data leaked from TransForm ransomware incident

As predicted, Daixin has leaked the third part of the data they exfiltrated from TransForm and Canadian healthcare entities. DataBreaches reported the first leak when Daixin publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. The second leak followed two d… Continue reading Update: Sensitive patient data leaked from TransForm ransomware incident

Update: Daixin leaks more data from Bluewater Health and other hospitals; databases yet to be leaked

As some will likely have already noticed, Daixin Team released the second part of the data leak from five hospitals in Ontario that have IT services provided by TransForm SSO. The first leak, containing many patient records, was previously reported by … Continue reading Update: Daixin leaks more data from Bluewater Health and other hospitals; databases yet to be leaked

Okta hit by third-party data breach exposing employee information

Bill Toulas reports: Okta is warning nearly 5,000 current and former employees that their personal information was exposed after a third-party vendor was breached. Okta is a San Fransisco-based cloud identity and access management solutions provider wh… Continue reading Okta hit by third-party data breach exposing employee information

SG: Healthcare institutions website outage did not disrupt critical service but it does shake confidence

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

Hackers Accessed 632,000 Email Addresses at US Justice, Defense Departments

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