Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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?

Customer Credentials Possibly Compromised at EHR Vendor Acquired by Oracle in 2022Oracle is dealing with a hacking incident involving legacy patient data of Cerner electronic health record customers. Oracle, which acquired Cerner in 2022, is reportedly telling clients the hack involved compromised credentials for systems scheduled to migrate to the cloud.

Court Filing: Threat Actor Stole Admin Credentials From IT Service Desk ContractorMedibank's lack of MFA on its global VPN allowed a hacker to use credentials stolen from an IT services desk contractor to access the private health insurer's IT systems in 2022, leading to a dark web data leak affecting 9.7 million individuals, Australian regulators said in court documents.

HHS Says Tried-and-True Hacker Methods Can Compromise Patient Data, SafetyFederal regulators are sounding an alarm to warn healthcare sector entities of cyberattacks involving a tried-and-true hacking method - credential harvesting, which can be used to compromise patient data, disrupt healthcare operations and enable other crimes.