Verizon DBIR: Healthcare Fends Off Increased Social Engineering Attacks
Ransomware and vendor breaches persist. The "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
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Ransomware and vendor breaches persist. The "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
Threat actors breached the telehealth brand, and now they may know patients' personal health details. What could they do with that information?
The ransomware gang breached a "major element" of the healthcare technology supply chain and stole sensitive patient data, according to researchers.
The CHC remains operational, but a host of personal data is now in the hands of a "skilled cybercriminal," it said.
One of the largest data breaches in history was apparently twice as impactful as previously thought, with PII belonging to hundreds of millions of people sitting in the hands of cybercriminals.
The cyberattack impacts at least 1.4 million patients, as tranches of highly sensitive personal, medical, and financial data fall into the hands of cyber crooks who have everything they need to carry out convincing social engineering and fraud attacks.
Eight months after the breach occurred, Change Healthcare has finally sent out millions of notices of compromised data to affected individuals.
Whoopsies in Ireland and Scotland speak to a tenuousness of cyber protections for sensitive private healthcare data.
Healthcare tech provider Change Healthcare says a suspected nation-state threat actor breached its systems, causing pharmacy transaction delays nationwide.
Viamedis and Almerys, two payment processors widely used by French health insurers, were victims of cyberattackers who struck five days apart.
Israeli intelligence said a cyber unit of Hezbollah also was involved in the cyberattack.
The Malek Team, which previously hit a private college in Israel, claims responsibility for a hack of Israel's Ziv Medical Center.
More than two dozen hospitals have been impacted by the breach and are diverting emergency care for patients to other healthcare facilities.
More than two dozen hospitals have been impacted by the breach and are diverting emergency care for patients to other healthcare facilities.
State's Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is the latest to acknowledge an attack by the Russian group's ongoing exploitation of third-party systems.
Living up to its name, Maximus sees a whale of a breach that affects millions of people's sensitive government records, including health data.
The hackers posted up for sale stolen HCA Healthcare data on Dark Web forum.
Data on more than 830K people exposed in the 2021 cyberattack.