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Novo Nordisk Breach Involved 'Copying' of Patient, Healthcare Provider InfoA hack on Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Novo Nordisk has compromised some patients' clinical trial information, the maker of popular weight loss and diabetes treatment drugs including Wegovy and Ozempic said. The company is working to bring affected IT systems back online.
Attackers Attempted to Reroute Hospital Medicaid ReimbursementsA hack on a Connecticut Medicaid web portal involving compromised credentials of a healthcare provider has affected the payment account and other information for about 22,500 patients. The data theft is the latest breach involving a healthcare related web portal hack. Why does this keep happening?
Incident Involved an Unnamed Third-Party VendorNew York City's municipal healthcare system is notifying nearly 2 million patients of a hacking incident discovered earlier this year involving a third-party vendor. The breach compromised a long list of information, including biometric data such as fingerprints.
Flaws in OpenEMR's platform — used by more than 100,000 healthcare providers — enabled database compromise, remote code execution, and data theft.
Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromised Multiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a researcher.…
Compromise Affects Healthcare Clients of Co.'s Revenue Cycle Management ServicesBilling services vendor Trizetto Provider Solutions is notifying 3.4 million individuals of a hacking incident discovered in October 2025 that investigators have now determined started nearly a year earlier, when threat actors accessed the company's healthcare clients' insurance related data.
Data Theft Incidents Are Among the Latest Hacks Against Specialty Medical ProvidersTwo specialty healthcare providers - a Florida-based firm that provides hospice services in several states and a Pennsylvania-based eye care practice - are notifying nearly 520,000 people that their sensitive health information was compromised in separate hacking incidents.
Compromised data includes personal data such as patients’ full names, ages, phone numbers and email addresses
Breach Affecting 104,000 Underscores Health Data Risks for Non-Healthcare FirmsAn Ohio hand tool manufacturer that sells its products through franchises is notifying nearly 104,000 people of a breach potentially compromising their medical data. The incident is a cautionary tale for non-healthcare sector entities about the risks they face involving health information.
Orthopedic Group, Medical Imaging Centers, Home Healthcare Provider Report BreachesSpecialty healthcare providers know what they're about when it comes to an irregular heartbeat or a wheezing lung. Cybersecurity, not so much. Hacks on specialty medical entities easily result in tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of patient records being compromised.
Senate HELP Committee Leaders Ask Insurer: What Went Wrong in the Cyberattack?A U.S. Senate committee is demanding details from insurance giant Aflac about the company's recent cyberattack that compromised the personal and health information of a yet undisclosed number of Americans. Senators last year gave the same scrutiny to the Change Healthcare mega-breach.
Firm Admits Paying Ransom in Exchange of Hacker's Promise to Delete Stolen InfoTwo Florida-based law firms with offices in other states are notifying 282,100 people whose healthcare and other information was potentially compromised in separate data theft incidents. One of the firms admitted to paying a ransom to prevent its data from being leaked on the dark web.
Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist Exclusive Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK's NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can reveal.…
Union Health System Among Many Cerner Legacy Data Clients Affected by BreachAn Indiana health system is among the first healthcare organizations notifying regulators and thousands of people affected by the Oracle hack in January. Attackers compromised legacy patient data hosted by Cerner servers that were set to migrate to Oracle's cloud environment.
This time criminals targeted partner’s third-party software It's more bad news from Ascension Health which is informing some of its patients, potentially for the second time in the space of a year, that their medical data was compromised during a major cyberattack.…
Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization's IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at their workplace and at their homes.…
Incident Spotted in March 2024 Is Yet Another Attack Against Medical Billing FirmsA Nebraska-based firm that provides revenue cycle management and billing services to healthcare firms is notifying tens of thousands of people and an undisclosed number of companies that their personal, health and financial information was compromised in a March 2024 hack.
Ransomware Attack Taught Lessons on Health Sector Resiliency, Vendor RedundancyIt's been one year since hackers attacked IT services provider Change Healthcare, quickly shutting down critical processes for thousands healthcare entities, triggering a data breach affecting 190 million people. So what top lessons are emerging from that massive disruption and data compromise?
Ransomware Group Embargo Claims to Have Published 1.15TB of Hospital's Stolen DataA rural Georgia hospital and its nursing home are among several other regional healthcare entities notifying tens of thousands of patients that their information was compromised in recent hacks. Ransomware gang Embargo claims to have published 1.15 terabytes of stolen data in one of those incidents.
Attacks Hit Hospitals, Clinics in California, Alabama and ColoradoThree healthcare entities - including a California hospital and outpatient care provider, an Alabama cardiology practice, and a Colorado community health system, are notifying a total of more than 1.2 million individuals that their sensitive information was compromised in 2024 hacks.