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Healthcare
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Apria Healthcare Discloses Major Data Breach Impacting 1.8M Users
The breach spanned two periods: from 5th April to 7th May 2019, and from 27th August to 10th October 2021.
May 24, 2023
ChatGPT Can Vastly Improve Healthcare, But The Industry Needs A Secure Database First
ChatGPT’s capabilities have been put to the test in numerous ways, and it has successfully passed no less than four U.S. benchmarking examinations for physicians.
May 9, 2023
Ghana govt agency exposed 700k citizens’ data in a database mess up
Ghana’s National Service Secretariate – NSS – exposed 55GB worth of citizens’ data when an AWS S3 bucket used by the Secretariate suffered misconfiguration.
December 22, 2021
Medtronic recalls insulin pump controllers over life-threatening flaws
Medtronic has recalled the remote controllers used with some of the company’s insulin pumps because of inherent vulnerabilities that could lead to injury or death.
October 7, 2021
Ex-army admin jailed for 12 years over US military health data theft
Frederick Brown, a medical data technician & admin associated with the 65th Medical Brigade of the US Army caused millions of dollars in losses.
October 4, 2021
Shared clinical workstation security and access
The Healthcare industry is a lucrative target for cybercriminals and it's time organizations start implementing proper security measures.
September 14, 2021
Prominent defibrillator management tool exposed to remote attacks
High-Risk security flaws found and patched in ZOLL defibrillator management software. Here's what happened and what was vulnerable.
June 21, 2021
Ransomware attack on health tech firm disrupted COVID-19 medical trials
Philadelphia-based Health Tech eResearchTechnology (ERT) Firm Suffered Ransomware Attack.
October 6, 2020
Hackers hit Europe’s largest healthcare provider with Snake ransomware
Snake ransomware, aka Ekans, was discovered in 2019...
May 8, 2020
Exclusive: Personal data of 1.41m US doctors sold on hacker forum
In the latest, a crook on a hacker forum is selling personal and contact details of 1.41 million doctors based in the United States.
April 12, 2020