Topic: healthcare data
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5.4M Healthcare Records Exposed in Episource Data Breach
A healthcare data breach at Episource exposed sensitive information of over 5.4 million individuals, including names, Social Security numbers, and medical histories, with Medicaid/Medicare beneficiaries heavily impacted. The breach highlights vulnerabilities in third-party healthcare vendors, as ...
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Australian Clinical Labs Fined for Medlab Pathology Data Breach
Australian Clinical Labs was fined $5.8 million for a 2022 data breach affecting over 223,000 people, marking the first civil penalties issued under the Privacy Act 1988. The penalties were imposed for failing to protect personal information, assess the breach promptly, and report it to the Commi...
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Two Cybersecurity Workers Jailed for BlackCat Ransomware Attacks
Two U.S. cybersecurity professionals, Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin, were each sentenced to four years in federal prison for facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks, having pleaded guilty in December 2025. The men helped launch attacks, funneled 20% of ransom payments to BlackCat administrators...
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Concentric AI Enhances Azure Security for Regulated Data
Concentric AI has expanded its Semantic Intelligence platform with a Private Scan Manager for Microsoft Azure, allowing sensitive data security operations to run entirely within a customer's private cloud infrastructure, following a similar offering for AWS. This solution is critical for highly r...
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iRhythm Confirms Hack, Patient Data Stolen
iRhythm Technologies confirmed a cyberattack on June 8 that led to patient data theft, with the attackers issuing a ransom demand. The breach highlights the growing vulnerability of healthcare data to ransomware attacks, and iRhythm is working with law enforcement and cybersecurity experts to inv...
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Cookeville Medical Center Alerts Patients to 2025 Ransomware Attack
Cookeville Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is notifying hundreds of thousands of patients that their sensitive personal and medical data was stolen in a Rhysida ransomware attack discovered in late December 2025. The breach compromised protected health information for over 337,000 individuals, inc...
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OpenLoop Health Data Breach Affects 716,000
OpenLoop Health, a telehealth platform, suffered a data breach in January 2026 that compromised the personal information of approximately 716,000 individuals, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and medical data. The company has notified affected users and is offering credit moni...
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