Healthcare

September 17, 2022

New York-based Empress Emergency Medical Services discloses data breach after ransomware attack

On Thursday 14th of July 2022, Empress Emergency Medical Services (EMS), emergency response and ambulance service provider based in New York suffered a ransomware attack. An investigation into the incident revealed that the threat actor had gained access to Empress EMS’ systems on Thursday 26th of May, 2022. The threat actor stayed in their systems until Wednesday 13th of July 2022, […]

August 23, 2022

French hospital sends patients elsewhere after $10M ransomware attack

On Sunday 21st of August 2022, the Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF), a 1000-bed hospital located 28km from the center of Paris, suffered a cyberattack which has resulted in the medical centre referring patients to other establishments and postponing appointments for surgeries. The hospital’s administration has not provided further updates on the situation, and the IT system outage is still […]

August 11, 2022

UK NHS services still recovering after ransomware attack against British MSP

On Thursday 4th of August 2022, Advanced, a British managed service provider (MSP) suffered a ransomware attack that occurred in the early morning. The incident resulted in seven of the solutions that Advanced offer being impacted. One of Advanced’s main customers was United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) where emergency services (111) were disrupted due to the incident. When the […]

April 26, 2022

New Black Basta ransomware gang attacks the American Dental Association

On Friday 22nd of April 2022, American Dental Association (ADA) suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in ADA having to take their affected systems offline, which disrupted various online services, telephones, email, and webchat. It has been detailed in an email sent to ADA members, that soon after the discovery of the attack, ADA immediately responded to the incident by […]

December 3, 2021

Ontario family support charity learns of ransomware incident after threat actors send emails targeting clients

On Thursday 2nd of December 2021, Social Enterprise for Canada (SEC), a Southern Ontario charity that offers family services announced they had learned they has been a target of a ransomware attack on Tuesday, 23rd of November 2021 which resulted in some of the servers supporting their email and IT systems being affected. They were alerted to the incident when it […]

November 12, 2021

Customers urged to change passwords after German medical software vendor Medatixx experiences ransomware attack

On Friday 12th of November 2021, Medatixx, a German medical software vendor who provides medical software to over 21,000 health institutions, announced they had experienced a ransomware attack which has led to their operations being shut down. Shortly after the attack, they urged their customers and users to change their application passwords and passwords to all their workstations and servers […]

November 1, 2021

Handa Hospital in Tokushima Prefecture disrupted heavily by ransomware attack

On Sunday 31st of October 2021, Tsurugi municipal Handa Hospital in Tokushima Prefecture suffered a ransomware attack which disrupted the operations of the hospital and involved electronic records of over 85,000 patients being made inaccessible. Indications of the incident were noticed at 12:30 a.m. when many of hospital’s printers started to print out messages that stated the hospital’s data had […]

November 1, 2021

Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador healthcare providers hit by possible ransomware attack

On Saturday 30th of October 2021, healthcare providers and hospitals from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador experienced a possible ransomware attack. The attack led to the regional health systems having to shut down their networks and thousands of medical appointments were cancelled because of the outage. It has been confirmed that the outage is a result of a […]

August 23, 2021

Italy’s Lazio region’s vaccination registration system down after IT systems were disabled by ransomware attack

On Sunday 1st of August 2021, one of Italy’s largest regions, Lazio region experienced a ransomware attack that caused the region’s IT systems to be disabled. It meant Lazio residents were not able to book new vaccination appointments through the region’s COVID-19 vaccination registration portal as it was also taken down by the attack. Nicola Zingaretti, the region’s president confirmed […]

New York-based Empress Emergency Medical Services discloses data breach after ransomware attack

French hospital sends patients elsewhere after $10M ransomware attack

UK NHS services still recovering after ransomware attack against British MSP

New Black Basta ransomware gang attacks the American Dental Association

Ontario family support charity learns of ransomware incident after threat actors send emails targeting clients

Customers urged to change passwords after German medical software vendor Medatixx experiences ransomware attack

Handa Hospital in Tokushima Prefecture disrupted heavily by ransomware attack

Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador healthcare providers hit by possible ransomware attack

Italy’s Lazio region’s vaccination registration system down after IT systems were disabled by ransomware attack

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