The patient tally from the Synnovis ransomware attack continues to grow two years later, with Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust confirming it was caught up in the breach. The trust told The Register that the Synnovis breach affected about 2,380 records relating to patients who underwent specialist diagnostic testing.
The disclosure follows a similar announcement by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which earlier this month said that almost 33,000 patient records had been caught up in the same breach.
Read more…
Source: The Register
Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter
The latest cyber security news and insights delivered right to your inbox
Related:
- Privacy group fights European Parliament over ‘massive’ HR data breach
August 22, 2024
The European Parliament’s headache over a major human resources data breach earlier this year just won’t fade. Austria-based digital rights group noyb on Thursday said it had filed two complaints against the European Union institution for infringing the bloc’s flagship privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), over a data breach discovered before the ...
- FlightAware Customer Data Left Exposed for Over Three Years
August 21, 2024
Users of FlightAware, the world’s largest flight-tracking platform, are being prompted to change their login credentials following a reported “data security incident.” According to FlightAware, the breach may have leaked sensitive customer information. The problem was discovered on 25 July, but it’s possible that it’s been ongoing since January 2021. Company officials say they believe it ...
- Toyota confirms customer and employee data stolen, says breach at third party to blame
August 21, 2024
Last week, a cybercriminal using the handle ZeroSevenGroup dumped 240GB of data on the infamous stolen data site BreachForums, that they said came from a hack on the US branch of car manufacturer Toyota. ZeroSevenGroup claims the dump includes customer and employee data. Toyota told BleepingComputer that a breach at a third party had led to the ...
- Hacked GPS tracker reveals location data of customers
August 19, 2024
Stalkerware researcher maia arson crimew strikes again. Big time. We know maia as a researcher that loves to go after stalkerware peddlers, which Malwarebytes—as one of the founding members of the Coalition Against Stalkerware—loves to see. The investigation into Tracki, besides uncovering a tangled web of companies, dubious websites, and false identities, also led to a ...
- How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline
August 17, 2024
A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data breach, a “substantial proportion of people living in America” are receiving notice by mail that their personal and health information was ...
- T-Mobile Fined $60 Million to Settle Alleged National Security Violations
August 15, 2024
Wireless company T-Mobile US has agreed to pay about $60 million to settle allegations it failed to promptly report incidents of unauthorized data access in violation of a national security agreement that allowed its merger with rival Sprint, according to senior U.S. government officials. The civil penalty, announced Wednesday by the Committee on Foreign Investment in ...