Vastaamo
March 31, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
In October 2020, the Finnish psychotherapy service Vastaamo was the subject of a ransomware attack targeting first the company itself, followed by their patients directly. The original security incident dates back to a period between late 2018 and early 2019 and exposed data including 30k unique email addresses, names, social security numbers and notes on individuals' psychotherapy sessions. This breach has been flagged as "sensitive" and is only searchable by owners of the email addresses and domains exposed in the incident.
Brookside ENT and Hearing Center
March 29, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Brookside ENT and Hearing Center is hit by a ransomware attack.
Palmetto Health
March 29, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Palmetto Health reports that a phishing attack sometime in November 2018, hit 23,811 patients.
Womens' Health USA
March 29, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Womens' Health USA notifies 17,531 patients, after disclosing that its employees were hit by a phishing attack that began in April, 2018 and also occurred in August.
DePaul
March 29, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Local housing and health provider DePaul experiences a phishing attack in February that exposed some clients' sensitive information.
Southern Hills Eye Care
March 29, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Southern Hills Eye Care notifies patients of a ransomware attack occurred in January 2019.
Canada's Natural Health Services (NHS)
March 28, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
A data breach at Canada's Natural Health Services (NHS) exposes personal information of roughly 34,000 medical marijuana users after a record is accessed by an "unauthorized user".
Superior Dental Care
March 25, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Superior Dental Care announces that a phishing incident occurred in January 2019 may have resulted in unauthorized access to some of its members' personal information.
Verity Medical Foundation
March 25, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Verity Medical Foundation discloses a third incident involving access to employees' email accounts.
Human Development Center
March 22, 2019
•[ hack, social, healthcare ]
The Human Development Center in Duluth says a data breach occurred in January, when an employee's email account was compromised and accessed by individuals outside HDC.
Navicent Health
March 22, 2019
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Navicent Health, announces it was the victim of a cyber attack that targeted its email system during the "past summer".
Frederick Regional Health System
March 18, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Frederick Regional Health System discloses a phishing incident, occurred on January 2019, which compromised an undisclosed number of hospice patients' personal and protected health information.
Ballard Northwest Senior Center
March 14, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Ballard Northwest Senior Center has its server wiped just by a ransomware attack, just weeks before their biggest fundraiser of the year.
Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth (DGS)
March 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth (DGS) is forced to pay a ransom to recover files that had been encrypted in a Christmas Day ransomware attack.
Direct Scripts
March 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Direct Scripts suffers a ransomware attack on January 30, 2019 which resulted in the encryption of files containing patients' protected health information.
Maffi Clinics
March 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Maffi Clinics, alerts 10,465 patients that some of their protected health information was potentially compromised as a result of a September 11, 2018 ransomware attack.
Columbia Surgical Specialists
March 7, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Columbia Surgical Specialists confirms to have paid a $15,000 ransom after being infected by a ransomware on January 9, and having the information of 400,000 patients encrypted.
Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital
March 6, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Nearly 4,800 patients at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital are notified of the ransomware attack to Wolverine Solutions.
Pasquotank-Camden Emergency Medical Service
February 27, 2019
•[ hack, healthcare ]
Pasquotank-Camden Emergency Medical Service notifies 40,000 individuals after an unauthorized intrusion from outside the U.S. occurred in late December 2018.
Wolverine Solutions Group (WSG)
February 27, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Wolverine Solutions Group (WSG) says that it discovered its systems had suffered a ransomware infection on September 25 last year. More than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients are affected.
