Washington University School of Medicine reported patient data access breaches recently as an unauthorized person accessed an employee’s email account in the major academic medical center’s Division of Oncology. The School of Medicine, following protocol, secured the...
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Clinical Investigational Site Hit by Cyber Gangsters and 2,300 Subjects’ Personal Data Published on the Internet
Hammersmith Medicines Research Ltd. was scheduled to commence a trial of a potential COVID-19 vaccine when it was attacked by the Maze ransomware group on March 14, locking down its systems. When it resisted the hacking group’s demands, the latter published historic...
AI Giants Increasingly Tap Into & Access Provider Patient Data
Providers, primarily hospitals, are engaging in unprecedented patient record sharing with technology kingpins of Google, Microsoft Amazon, and IBM, exposing millions of patients’ sensitive identifiable medical records in a period of growing digital security concerns....
National Pharmacy-Focused Facial Recognition System Rolled out in China to Combat Drug Abuse
China is trialing a facial recognition technology at pharmacies to combat drug abuse. By using technology at 31 health care organizations that require an identity check using face scans before the pickup of medication, it is hoped that this effort will reduce drug...
Insecurity – Your Medical Images And Data May Be Available On Line, To Anyone
According to a report by ProPublica, millions of American’s private medical information and images are available on the Internet with a minimum of computer expertise. Using legal and commonly used radiologic communication software, ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom...
Former NIH Director on U.S. Authorities Targeting of Chinese Researchers
Elias Zerhouni has been around the drug development block. A former NIH director as well as head of R&D at Sanofi, Mr. Zerhouni expressed deep concern about the future of biotech in the U.S. and everywhere given growing scrutiny of Chinese-born scientists working...
12 Million Patients Impacted by Quest Diagnostics & Labcorp Breach
Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America (owns large CROs such as Covance) announced data breaches impacting up to 20 million patient records—a massive data protection and privacy breach. The breach occurred ongoing between August 2018 and March 2019,...
German Pharma Bayer Attacked by Chinese Hackers
Reuters reports Bayer has stopped a Chinese cyber-attack. Last year, Bayer found the malware WINNTI on their network. They have found no evidence of data theft, but the security teams are still assessing the damage. Evidence points to the ‘Wicked Panda’ group as...