AMCA parent company files for bankruptcy amid data breach fallout

The Alaris Gateway Workstation can be "bricked" by one attack, and another would allow hackers to reconfigure it or monitor what it does, researchers with CyberMDX say.

The unauthorized access occurred between August 1, 2018 and March 30, according to an SEC filing.

Patient names, their rehab care provider, and specific procedures they received were among the information sitting in the insecure database.

Bounty UK collected information from new mothers, mothers-to-be, as well as the birth dates and genders of young children, according to the ICO.

Roughly 100 computers were infected with malicious software that stole user credentials, then tried to install a program that would co-opt those machines into mining for cryptocurrency.

The pharmaceutical giant said it found malicious software on its computer networks last year.

The issue involves Conexus, Medtronic’s radio-frequency protocol that’s used for communication between medical technology such as defibrillators, home monitoring devices and other clinician programming tools.

More than zero-days or machine learning, this is what CISOs are constantly measuring on a day-to-day basis.

Hackers have haunted the industry for years, leveraging medical devices to steal valuable personal information or launch highly publicized ransomware attacks.

The information in question become inaccessible on Dec. 4, 2018 “due to an internal human error,” the hospital system said.