The Hipocrate Information System (HIS) used by hospitals to manage medical activity and patient data was targeted over the weekend and is now offline after its database was encrypted.
Governance & Risk Management , Healthcare , HIPAA/HITECH NewYork-Presbyterian Disabled Website, Patient Portal Trackers in 2022 Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • January 2, 2024 Image: Getty State regulators have fined a large New York academic medical center $300,000 to settle privacy violations related to the organization’s prior use of tracking tools in its […]
Researchers say they found exposed patient imaging, as well as names, addresses and phone numbers Carly Page 1 day Thousands of exposed servers are spilling the medical records and personal health information of millions of patients due to security weaknesses in a decades-old industry standard designed for storing and sharing medical images, researchers have warned. […]
Welltok, a patient communication services provider, has notified over 1.6 million patients that their private healthcare data may have been stolen in the MOVEit breach, affecting healthcare providers such as Stanford Health Care and Sutter Health.
Five Canadian hospitals have confirmed that patient and employee data that was stolen in a ransomware attack has been leaked online. The data breach impacts Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, and Windsor Regional Hospital, along with service provider TransForm Shared Service Organization. A shared drive was compromised as part […]
The hospitals’ IT provider, TransForm, is investigating the incident and determining if patient data was compromised. As a result of the outage, online services such as patient records and email have been affected.