Healthcare

February 3, 2026

Capital Health, a health care provider with multiple locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, will pay $4.5 million as part of a settlement over a 2023 data breach that compromised the private information of patients, former patients and employees. In a statement, the company said the stolen information included names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of ...

January 31, 2026

Thousands more Oregonians will soon receive data breach letters in the continued fallout from the TriZetto data breach, in which someone hacked the insurance verification provider and gained access to its healthcare provider customers across multiple US states. The breach occurred back in November 2024, with intruders snooping through protected health information and other sensitive personal ...

January 12, 2026

Patients caught up in the CanopyHealth data breach are furious that it took the company six months to tell them about it. On Monday, it was revealed the leading private provider doing breast cancer diagnosis and treatment took six months to notify some patients or the public of a major cyber attack on its systems. In ...

January 8, 2026

The health department for the U.S. state of Illinois has confirmed that a years-long security lapse exposed the personal information of more than 700,000 state residents. The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) said in a statement on January 2 that an internal mapping website containing residents’ personal information, which officials used for assisting with the ...

January 2, 2026

Cognizant Technology Solutions is facing a wave of class-action lawsuits in the United States after a long-running data breach at its healthcare claims processing unit, TriZetto Provider Solutions (TPS), triggered legal challenges from affected individuals. According to court filings, at least three lawsuits were filed late last month in federal courts in New Jersey and Missouri, ...

December 19, 2025

DXS International which provides healthcare technology for the NHS has disclosed a cyber attack, which has led to data being stolen. The UK-based company provides software that helps to reduce costs for doctors and primary care physicians and is used by around 2,000 GPs which oversee the care of around 17 million patients. In a filing ...

December 1, 2025

NHS Highland is at heightened risk of falling prey to a major cyber attack in part due to “poor practice” by some staff members. The warning, contained in a report to the board assessing risk levels faced in a range of areas against what is deemed an acceptable level of risk, comes as the busy ...

November 28, 2025

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November 13, 2025

The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and partner organisations are releasing this joint advisory to disseminate known Akira ransomware IOCs and TTPs identified through FBI investigations and trusted third-party reporting as recently as November 2025. Akira ransomware threat actors are associated with other groups known as Storm-1567, Howling Scorpius, Punk Spider, and Gold Sahara, ...

November 13, 2025

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the public about an evolving financial fraud scheme targeting Chinese speaking individuals residing in the United States in which criminals impersonate US health insurance providers and Chinese law enforcement. Targeted individuals receive a call from a spoofed telephone number of a legitimate US health insurance provider’s claims department. The ...

November 11, 2025

Pathology supplier Synnovis is contacting NHS organisations which had data stolen and published online following a major cyber attack last year. Synnovis has now completed its investigation into patient and staff data published online by the cyber criminal gang on 20 June 2024, which includes personal data such as names, NHS numbers, test results and test ...

October 31, 2025

A woman has been charged after around 100 patients had their medical records accessed in a data breach at NHS Lothian. The health board has written letters to patients affected by the breach, which they say was caused by one individual at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. A letter dated last month, seen by STV News, says the ...

October 24, 2025

More than 1 million patients have been affected by a data breach involving SimonMed Imaging, one of the country’s largest outpatient radiology and medical imaging providers. The breach came to light after a cyberattack compromised sensitive patient data, with reports indicating that ransomware operators may have been behind the incident. What makes this case particularly concerning is the ...

September 11, 2025

French regional healthcare agencies have been targeted by cyber-attacks compromising the personal data of patients across the country. On September 8, the regional healthcare agencies (ARS) for three regions, Hauts-de-France (Upper France), Normandy and Pays de la Loire (Lower Loire), issued security alerts warning about recent cyber-attacks carried out against the servers hosting the identity ...

August 21, 2025

A ransomware attack that encrypted certain elements of dialysis firm DaVita’s network impacted 2.7 million people, the U.S. health department’s website showed on Thursday. The firm had disclosed in April that it was hit by a cyberattack. At the time, it said it would continue to provide patient care as it took measures to restore certain ...

August 19, 2025

Inotiv, an American pharmaceutical and biotech company, has confirmed it has suffered a ransomware attack which forced it to shut down parts of its IT infrastructure. In a report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company said it spotted the attack on August 8, 2025. The initial investigation determined that someone broke ...

August 1, 2025

Central Maine Healthcare says an unauthorized party gained access to its network on March 19th, and they kept that access until June 1st. After a weeks-long shut down of phone and online services, Central Maine Healthcare officials say patient data was likely compromised during a two and a half month period where a hacker gained access ...

July 14, 2025

Medical billing giant Episource is notifying millions of people across the United States that their personal and health information was stolen in a cyberattack earlier this year. The breach affects more than 5.4 million people, according to a listing with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, making it one of the largest healthcare breaches ...

July 12, 2025

Healthcare data continues to be a top target for cybercriminals. In June alone, two major breaches compromised over 13 million patient records. Now, a newly confirmed Medicare data breach has affected more than 100,000 Americans. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sent letters this week to those affected, confirming that hackers accessed sensitive data ...

July 8, 2025

China’s Ministry of State Security Directed the Theft of COVID-19 Research and the Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities, Known Publicly as the Indiscriminate ‘HAFNIUM’ Intrusion Campaign The Justice Department announced today that Xu Zewei (徐泽伟), 33, of the People’s Republic of China was arrested on July 3 in Italy at the request of the ...