California Expands Security Breach Notification Law to Include Medical and Health Insurance InformationJonesDay
Since medical devices often store and transmit sensitive health information, a security breach can expose personal health records, leading to identity theft and loss of patient confidentiality. This is a typical risk in ransomware attacks, where malicious actors encrypt critical data and demand a ranso...
Security Breach in Finland Leads to Psychiatric Patient Blackmail Hackers have accessed patient records at Finland's largest private psychotherapy system, emailing some patients to pay up or face having their private medical records released online. Vastaamo treats about 40,000 patients and runs 25 ce...
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Data Breach Notification is the voluntary and/or mandatory admission of a company that certain pieces of critical information have been compromised in a breach.
This could result in a major privacy breach, as IMDs store sensitive information such as vital signals, diagnosed conditions, therapies, and a variety of personal data (e.g., birth date, name, and other medically relevant identifiers). A vulnerable communication channel also makes it easier to...
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DDoS attacks jeopardize patient safety by impeding timely access to medical information and services, potentially delaying vital treatments and procedures Cover Up of Data Breach Attempts DDoS attacks can lead to data breaches and expose private patient information, resulting in legal and regulatory conseq...
vulnerable medical devices may be harnessed as part of a botnet* to launch attacks on other targets; as a back channel to breach the security of hospital or clinic networks; to extract ransoms; to harm a patient or user of the device and to inflict other financial or reputational damages ...
Netgain Technology Pays $1.9M in Data Breach Settlement Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • May 15, 2025 A financially strapped cloud services vendor that experienced a 2020 ransomware attack affecting dozens of healthcare sector clients and hundreds of thousands of patients has agreed to a $1.9 million...