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CISOs, are your medical devices secure? Attackers are watching closely
2025-03-13 06:00

The adoption of connected medical devices, collectively called the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), has transformed patient care. However, this technological advancement has also introduced...

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86k+ medical records, PII in open S3 bucket for months
2025-03-11 17:00

Non-password-protected, unencrypted 108GB database…what could possibly go wrong Exclusive More than 86,000 records containing nurses' medical records, facial images, ID documents and more...

China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers
2025-02-25 13:15

Sly like a PRC cyberattack A Chinese government-backed group is spoofing legitimate medical software to hijack hospital patients' computers, infecting them with backdoors, credential-swiping...

Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market
2025-02-19 13:01

15GB of sensitive files traced back to former software biz Typically shoppers can expect to find tie-dye t-shirts, broken lamps and old disco records at flea markets, now it seems storage drives...

Story About Medical Device Security
2025-02-18 12:06

Ben Rothke relates a story about me working with a medical device firm back when I was with BT. I don’t remember the story at all, or who the company was. But it sounds about right.

Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP
2025-02-03 02:02

PLUS: MGM settles breach suits; AWS doesn't trust you with security defaults; A new .NET backdoor; and more Infosec in brief The United States Food and Drug Administration has told medical...

Medical billing firm Medusind discloses breach affecting 360,000 people
2025-01-08 17:28

​Medusind, a leading billing provider for healthcare organizations, is notifying hundreds of thousands of individuals of a data breach that exposed their personal and health information more than...

DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury
2025-01-07 14:45

Marc Rogers is 'lucky to be alive' Marc Rogers, DEF CON's head of security, faces tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills following an accident that left him with a broken neck and temporary...

Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew
2024-06-21 21:33

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Change Healthcare lists the medical data stolen in ransomware attack
2024-06-21 16:10

UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time what types of medical and patient data were stolen in the massive Change Healthcare ransomware attack, stating that data breach notifications will be mailed in July. Change Healthcare says that the exposed data may be different for each impacted individual and that patients' complete medical histories have not been seen in the stolen data.