Tag: Medical data
The Cancer in the Health Care System
The red and white webpage with the message that reads “Ooops, your files have been encrypted!” with a digital timer running on the left...
Mobile Health Apps Expose Protected Health Information via APIs
Health care providers have become the primary targets of cybercriminals. In 2020, several data breaches and cyberattacks were reported on health care organizations globally....
45 Mn Unique Medical Images Exposed Online via Unprotected Servers
Cybersecurity researchers from CybelAngel, a provider of digital risk protection services, uncovered a massive data leak incident that exposed millions of medical-related sensitive images,...
Lapse in Security! Pfizers Inadvertently Exposes PII of U.S. Prescription Drug...
Global pharmaceutical company Pfizer inadvertently exposed Personal Identifiable Information (PII) of hundreds of prescription drug users in the U.S. after its misconfigured Google Cloud...
FDA Reveals Potential Vulnerabilities in Certain Medical Devices
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has notified patients, health care providers about a set of cybersecurity vulnerabilities mentioned as "SweynTooth." According to...
Medical Cannabis Users Suffer Data Breach
Researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from security firm vpnMentor discovered an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket on December 24, 2019, that exposed sensitive data...