The Federal Trade Commission has issued a proposed order to ban the online counselling service BetterHelp, Inc. The Commission aims at preventing the company from revealing consumers’ sensitive data to Facebook and others for targeted advertising. BetterHelp has been also required to pay $7.8 million for deceiving consumers by promising the protection of their sensitive...
A cyber attack has hit the UK National Health Service (NHS) 111 telephone service delaying response times and other services such as patient referrals, out-of-hours appointment bookings, and emergency prescriptions. The target of the breach was Advanced, a company supplying software for about 85% of the NHS hotline’s services. The UK Government is now working...
The US medical supplies company Solara suffered an incident in 2019 which reportedly affected more than 114,000 patients and also some of its employees. The breach involved personal identifying information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), where cyber criminals had accessed Solara’s Microsoft Office 365 accounts. Solara’s investigation confirmed that the accessed email accounts contained...
According to the leading wire service in Italy, the Ansa, hackers had hit two Milan hospitals on Sunday 1 May and Monday 2 May. As a result of these attacks, the IT systems of the hospitals are down and they will have to restrict access to ERs and laboratory services Monday and Tuesday. Read more...
According to TechCrunch, a healthcare startup named myNurse, will shut down at the end of May due to a data breach exposing its users’ personal data.The breach was discovered on March 7 and consisted of an unauthorized individual accessing the app’s data. Demographic, health, and financial information were accessed, including medical histories, diagnoses, lab test...
The Office of Information Security of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a report providing insights into the May 2021 Conti ransomware attack on the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland. With the report, the HHS’s Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) provides advice for US healthcare and public health...
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