Cybercriminals Flock to Healthcare Businesses as Attacks Surge
While cyberattacks against hospitals and clinics grew modestly in the first half of 2026, attacks on service providers and other healthcare businesses more than doubled.
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While cyberattacks against hospitals and clinics grew modestly in the first half of 2026, attacks on service providers and other healthcare businesses more than doubled.
More Than 100,000 Affected by Hack Detected on Dec. 30The New Zealand government is probing a year-end ransomware hack of private healthcare service provider Manage My Health that impacted thousands of patients. Digital extortion group Kazu has claimed responsibility and threatened to leak the data on Jan. 15 unless it receives a $60,000 ransom.
A cyber espionage group known as Earth Ammit has been linked to two related but distinct campaigns from 2023 to 2024 targeting various entities in Taiwan and South Korea, including military, satellite, heavy industry, media, technology, software services, and healthcare sectors
Regulatory compliance is no longer just a concern for large enterprises. Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly subject to strict data protection and security regulations, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CMMC, GDPR, and the FTC Safeguards Rule. However, many SMBs struggle to maintain compliance due to limited IT resources, evolving regulatory requirements, and complex security challenges
Health Analytics Firm Said Hackers Stole Data on 1 Million by Hacking MSP's NetworkWho's responsible for a breach that exposed personal information for 1.1 million individuals? While a Maine consultancy blamed the breach on a managed service provider's network getting hacked, the MSP said the network was entirely owned and operated by its now-former customer.
Data Stolen via Breach of Reliable Networks - BerryDunn's Managed Service ProviderA Maine consulting firm with a medical data analytics business must notify more than 1 million Americans that hackers stole their information from company servers. Which clients of Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker - and by extension, their customers - have been affected by the breach isn't clear.
Healthcare service provider Kaiser Permanente disclosed a data security incident that may impact 13.4 million people in the United States. [...]
Non-profit healthcare service provider Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHC-SCW) has disclosed that a ransomware gang breached its network in January and stole documents containing the personal and medical information of over 500,000 individuals. [...]
Emergency impacting more than 100 facilities appears to be caused by incident at software provider The Romanian national cybersecurity agency (DNSC) has pinned the outbreak of ransomware cases across the country's hospitals to an incident at a service provider.…
Data breaches at two French healthcare payment service providers, Viamedis and Almerys, have now been determined to impact over 33 million people in the country. [...]
Shared service provider TransForm has published an update on the cyberattack that recently impacted operations in multiple hospitals in Ontario, Canada, clarifying that it was a ransomware attack. [...]
A cyberattack on shared service provider TransForm has impacted operations in five hospitals in Ontario, Canada, impacting patient care and causing appointments to be rescheduled. [...]
A cyberattack on shared service provider TransForm has impacted operations in five hospitals in Ontario, Canada, impacting patient care and causing appointments to be rescheduled. [...]
Cue the inevitable class action lawsuit PharMerica, one of the largest pharmacy service providers in the US, has revealed its IT systems were breached last month – and it's feared the intruders stole personal and healthcare data belonging to more than 5.8 million past customers…
A single ransomware attack on a New Zealand managed service provider (MSP) disrupted several of its clients' business operations overnight, most belonging to the healthcare sector. According to the country's privacy commissioner, "a cyber security incident involving a ransomware attack" in late November upended the daily operations of New Zealand's health ministry when it prevented the staff
Empress EMS (Emergency Medical Services), a New York-based emergency response and ambulance service provider, has disclosed a data breach that exposed customer information. [...]
Managed service provider (MSP) Advanced confirmed that a ransomware attack on its systems caused the disruption of emergency services (111) from the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). [...]
United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) 111 emergency services are affected by a major outage triggered by a cyberattack that hit the systems of managed service provider (MSP) Advanced. [...]
Plus: Hive hits health-care org, law enforcement ransomware response is lacking, and orgs can't meet new disclosure rules In Brief Cybercriminals have used fake emergency data requests (EDRs) to steal sensitive customer data from service providers and social media firms. At least one report suggests Apple, and Facebook's parent company Meta, were victims of this fraud.…