The University Medical Center hospital discloses a data breach after threat actors published online images of stolen personal information as proof of the hack.
The University Medical Center hospital, in Nevada, discloses a security breach, the hackers compromised its data servers and published online the pictures of the allegedly stolen personal information.
Early this week, the threat actors published the images of the driver’s licenses, passports and Social Security cards of about half a dozen alleged victims on its website.
The news was reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the incident took place in mid-June, and law enforcement was investigating the attack.
Anyway, the hospital said that it has no evidence that hackers breached any clinical systems. The hospital is notifying patients and employees that their personal information may have been exposed and will offer identity protection and credit monitoring services to the impacted customers.
“Cybersecurity threat analyst Brett Callow says the hacker group claiming responsibility for the breach has been linked to high-profile ransomware cases. He says 32 health care providers have been hit by ransomware attacks this year.” reported the Associated Press.
(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Medical Center hospital)
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Pierluigi Paganini
Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at “Cyber Defense Magazine”, Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog “Security Affairs” recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the “The Hacker News” team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books “The Deep Dark Web” and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.
The University Medical Center hospital discloses a data breach after threat actors published online images of stolen personal information as proof of the hack.
The University Medical Center hospital, in Nevada, discloses a security breach, the hackers compromised its data servers and published online the pictures of the allegedly stolen personal information.
Early this week, the threat actors published the images of the driver’s licenses, passports and Social Security cards of about half a dozen alleged victims on its website.
The news was reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the incident took place in mid-June, and law enforcement was investigating the attack.
Anyway, the hospital said that it has no evidence that hackers breached any clinical systems. The hospital is notifying patients and employees that their personal information may have been exposed and will offer identity protection and credit monitoring services to the impacted customers.
“Cybersecurity threat analyst Brett Callow says the hacker group claiming responsibility for the breach has been linked to high-profile ransomware cases. He says 32 health care providers have been hit by ransomware attacks this year.” reported the Associated Press.
(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Medical Center hospital)