Oracle is dealing with the fallout of a double data breach — one exposing patient data at US hospitals, and another raising concerns about its cloud security.
Reports over the weekend suggest a breach at Oracle Health, formerly known as Cerner, has impacted multiple US healthcare organisations and hospitals. Threat actors are believed to have stolen patient data from legacy servers during the attack. In a notice seen by BleepingComputer, Oracle Health said the attackers had accessed Cerner data stored on an old server that had not yet been migrated to Oracle Cloud. Oracle Health informed affected customers that it became aware of the breach on 20th February, after detecting unauthorised access to its legacy Cerner data migration servers.
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