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Health Researchers Often Overlook Security of Historical DatasetsAn August 2025 ransomware attack on the University of Hawaii Cancer Center's epidemiology division has affected 1.2 million individuals, including personal information such as Social Security numbers of certain research study participants dating back more than 30 years.
Nearly 60% of Tech Students Said They'd Violate HIPAA If the Price Was RightBudding IT insiders can be corrupted into giving up protected health information of a very famous patient, say State University of New York at Buffalo researchers who also found a correlation between an interest in white hat hacking and illegal breaches.
University of Hawaii Cancer Center Paid RansomCancer patients who participated in University of Hawaii Cancer Center studies during the 1990s may soon receive a notification that ransomware hackers stole their data in an August 2025 incident. Experts said the hack spotlights concerning risks involving compromises of medical research data.
Clinical Diagnostics Lab Hack Among Latest Recent Cyberattacks in the NetherlandsA Dutch population health research agency is notifying 485,000 participants of a cervical cancer screening program of a hacking incident at a clinical diagnostics laboratory that potentially compromised patients' personal and health information, including lab test results.
Latest Exfiltration and Hacking Incidents Highlight Health Sector Cyber ChallengesWhat do a California cancer research center; an Indiana ear, nose and throat practice; an Oklahoma ambulance company; and a New York billing firm all have in common? They're among the latest firms to report data exfiltration breaches, which have affected millions of U.S. patients so far this year.
[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 -- less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users -- and launched LeakedSource three months later.
The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been linked to a new campaign targeting various key industries in Colombia