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On Sunday evening, the CHwapi hospital in Belgium suffered a cyberattack that prompted the facility to redirect emergency patients to other hospitals and delay surgical procedures. As reported by local media group L’Avenir, 80 of the hospital center’s 300 servers were affected by the attack, forcing staff and nurses to abandon digital entries and turn […]

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A total of eight security issues were identified. Although they feature severity ratings of medium and low, even low-skilled hackers could exploit them, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns in a security alert. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in unauthorized access, interrupted monitoring, and collection of access information and/or patient data,” […]

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UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital in Waterloo, Iowa, reported that patient information was exposed by a worker over a seven year period. The hospital is notifying about1,620 patients that their personal information was inappropriately accessed by a now former employee. The staffer was authorized to access patient information, but in this case she also viewed electronic medical […]

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