Community Health Center discloses large -scale patient data infringement.
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Update, February 2, 2025: This story first released on January 31, following this latest medical record violation and ransomware attack on major New York -donation groups. Includes further experts on cyber security issues facing the provider.
Ransomware attack has reached a record number and has reached more than 1 billion stolen passwords sold on the dark web, so I am always surprised that there is no data infringement. It is not shocking when medical providers have led to a medical record of 1 million patients. What we know about the security case of the Community Health Center is as follows:
More than 1 million medical records were stolen
On January 30, submission to the Main State Corporation of COMMUNITY Health Central, based in Connecticut State, revealed the data infringement that was first discovered on January 2. The person who got access to the network.
Mark Masselli in a letter to the patient influenced by this reporter
Community Health Center, incenter. According to the president and CEO, the investigator determined that “the skilled criminal's hacker has entered our system and has acquired data that may include personal information.” Masselli said it was not a ransomware attack because the data was not deleted or encrypted, and hack did not affect healthcare operations. “I believe we stopped the criminal
Hackers are accessing within a few hours, “Maseri said. “And there is no current threat to our system.”
However, there are very few problems with hackers stolen. A file containing “personal information that has 1,060,936 patients and health information of patients”. It is understood that the stolen data contains the following:
Patient Name Contact Information Date Social Security Number Medical Diagnosis Details Test Results Health Insurance Details
Medical record nightmare
“This incident emphasizes the urgency of securing healthcare infrastructure. It protects not only patient data, but also a wider ecosystem for communication, collaboration, and care provision,” said the Cyware director. EMILY PHELPS states. Healthcare providers are faced with the attacker accessible to confidential data such as name, medical diagnosis, insurance details. “
The Community Health Center attack is not associated with ransom -related, but the same is not the case with the latest healthcare hacks. As reported on February 1st, the Blood Center in New York has confused the blood donation process of a major blood supply company that can obtain all the results associated with such irresponsible behavior in 200 hospitals. I was hit by a scam bag.
Dr. ILIA Kolochenko, a CEO of Immuniweb and a British Computer Society, told me that Healthcare was the most desirable target for the ransomware group for three important reasons. First, most medical institutions say, “The government's subsidies and charity donations are mainly surviving,” said Korochenko, “This is a low fruits for non -CRU -modest cyber criminals. The rich financial institution is a multi -layered cyber defense. It will be expensive. “I know this,” said Colochenko, “The ransomware group usually starts with 6 -digit or seven -digit bidding, greatly reduced it, which can be greatly paid. I believe I put it in. ” The provider can handle the very delicate data of politicians, celebrities, and wealthy executives, and says, “Compared to most other sector, it will make an attack on healthcare unusual.” I concluded.
Masselli, on the other hand, said that the community health center has “added special software to enhance our security and monitor suspected activities,” but this is cool for patients whose medical records have been impaired. He said that it was comfortable. Considering that the attacker can access the name, date of birth, and health insurance details, this can be a nightmare of fear tor waiting for the development.
