Gifford Health Care last month notified federal authorities of a data breach involving a vendor that helps administer one of the Randolph-based medical center’s drug-pricing programs. Gifford notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on April 23 of a “hacking/IT incident” involving a network server, according to HHS records. Gifford spokeswoman Ashley Lincoln...
Anton Nilsson reports: Hackers have claimed they have gained access to “tens of thousands” of SIM cards after a cyber attack against an Australian telecom firm. The victim, Melbourne-based Schepisi Communications, describes itself as a “platinum partner” of Telstra that supplies phone numbers and cloud storage services on behalf of the telecommunications giant. The...
Christina Bravo reports: Scripps Health confirmed Sunday their technology servers were hacked overnight, forcing the health care system to switch to offline chart systems and causing a disruption to their patient portals. Scripps did not provide any information on how the cyberattack occurred or state exactly what systems were affected by the breach. The...
Dan Margulies reports on a breach that had the potential to cost lifes when a transplant network was temporarily locked out of its files: Families of organ, eye and tissue donors are receiving letters this week from the Midwest Transplant Network informing them of a data breach affecting more than 17,000 individuals. The breach,...
Braden Dupuis reports: A ransomware attack on the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) could have far-reaching consequences, according to a cyber security expert, but there’s no way of knowing for sure until a full forensic investigation is completed. In a recent post to the dark web (a part of the internet not visible to search engines,...