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Sead Fadilpašić

Multiple healthcare giants hit by data breaches affecting patient records, social security numbers, and even implanted cardiac devices

Laboratory.
  • McKesson confirmed ShinyHunters breached its Snowflake and Salesforce, stealing 284M patient records
  • Data includes names, contact info, SSNs, and health details; ransom demand was $55.2M
  • Boston Scientific removed attackers but faces CRM device activation issues; attribution not confirmed

Last week, two major healthcare organizations suffered highly disruptive cyberattacks: Boston Scientific, and McKesson. We now have more details about both those attacks, and it seems at least one is the work of the infamous ShinyHunters extortion group.

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