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Best Buy to expand health offerings with new partner
12/13/23 at 03:55 AMBest Buy to expand health offerings with new partnerModern HealthcareDecember 11, 2023Best Buy plans to expand its healthcare offerings through a new partnership with Biobeat, a remote patient monitoring company. The partnership is the latest effort by the retailer’s Best Buy Health unit to bolster its at-home health strategy. Best Buy Health aims to provide the technology side of at-home care through its Current Health subsidiary, which Best Buy acquired in 2021 for $400 million. ... Terms of the partnership were not disclosed. ... Biobeat allows patients to remotely view several health metrics, including cuffless blood pressure, pulse rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen saturation, stroke volume and cardiac output through wearable devices.
Norton Healthcare ransomware attack exposes 2.5M people
12/13/23 at 03:00 AMNorton Healthcare ransomware attack exposes 2.5M peopleHealthcare DiveDecember 11, 2023Norton Healthcare said sensitive data on 2.5 million people was exposed by a ransomware attack in May, the clinic and hospital group said Friday in a data breach notification filed with Maine’s attorney general. Norton Healthcare discovered the cyberattack on May 9, which it later determined was ransomware. The threat actors had access to some network storage devices between May 7–9, but the healthcare group’s medical record system was not compromised, the company said in the filing. An investigation into the attack, which was completed in mid-November, determined names, contact information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, health and insurance information, and medical ID numbers were compromised. .... [Kentucky-based] Norton Healthcare said it did not make a ransom payment and has not detected any additional indicators of compromise since it began restoring its systems from backups on May 10. The delayed disclosure, seven months after the intrusion was detected, underscores the complicated nature of post-incident investigations.
Ransomware group posts stolen Tri-City Medical Center documents to dark web
12/11/23 at 04:00 AMRansomware group posts stolen Tri-City Medical Center documents to dark webSan Diego Union-TribuneDecember 8, 2023Though Tri-City Medical Center got its operations back up and running 17 days ago, ransomware extortion efforts appear to be ongoing against the Oceanside hospital. Earlier this week, a cyber security expert noted in a message on X, formerly called Twitter, that “INC RANSOM”, a well known group of cyber extortionists, announced its possession of records stolen from the health care provider on the dark web, an anonymous corner of the Internet where such information is often bought and sold.
Dameron Hospital in Stockton hit by cyberattack
12/09/23 at 03:00 AMDameron Hospital in Stockton hit by cyberattackKCRA-TV (Sacramento, CA)December 5, 2023Stockton, CA—Dameron Hospital in Stockton said it is investigating a cyberattack that has forced some patients to reschedule their procedures. The hospital said in a statement Tuesday that “patient care operations are functioning normally,” which includes its emergency department. The hospital described the issue as a “data security incident that has impacted certain systems on our network.” It did not say when the attack happened or describe which systems may have been compromised.
Corewell Health cyberattack exposes personal data of 1M patients
12/06/23 at 04:00 AMCorewell Health cyberattack exposes personal data of 1M patientsCrain’s Detroit Business/Modern HealthcareDecember 4, 2023Corewell Health’s Southeast Michigan operations were victims of a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of roughly 1 million of its patients and 2,500 of its Priority Health insurance members, the company announced. The cybersecurity breach occurred at Welltok Inc., a software company that works for many healthcare companies across the U.S., and exposed the data of 8.5 million people nationally, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessell’s office announced Friday.