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Medical and personal information stolen from Ireland’s health service in a ransomware attack last week is now being shared online after the service refused to pay the demanded ransom.

The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) has been hit by a cyberattack, forcing the organization to shut down its IT systems as a precautionary measure.

Cybercriminals who specialize in ransomware have already been using double extortion tactics in which they not only decrypt stolen data, but also threaten to leak it publicly unless the ransom…

Network intrusion incidents have overtaken phishing as the leading cause of healthcare data security incidents, which had been the main cause of data breaches for the past 5 years.

The latest edition of the annual BakerHostetler Data Security Incident Response Report found that ransomware in 2020 continued to be a threat — and that many cases resulted in lawsuits.

Employees of a vendor paid to conduct COVID-19 contact tracing in Pennsylvania may have compromised the private information of at least 72,000 people, including their exposure status and their sexual…

A Philadelphia-based health system is facing a class action lawsuit over an August 2020 phishing attack that resulted in multiple employee email accounts being accessed by an unauthorized individual.

The Justice Department has formed a task force to curtail the proliferation of ransomware cyberattacks, in a bid to make the popular extortion schemes less lucrative by targeting the entire…

A lawsuit has been filed against a South Carolina healthcare company alleging a breach of private patient data, including financial and medical information, was compromised.