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Electronic health record company CareCloud says 3.7 million people affected by breach
Healthcare software firm CareCloud reported a breach affecting 3,756,469 people after a hacker spent eight hours in an AWS EHR environment.
CareCloud disclosed to HHS that a hacker accessed one of its AWS environments from March 10 to March 16 and exfiltrated data within an eight-hour window in its electronic health record environment. Stolen data includes Social Security numbers, ID numbers, credit and debit card details, medical information, and insurance data. The company serves more than 45,000 providers and reported the incident to the SEC on March 24. No hacking group has claimed responsibility.
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AdaptHealth confirms 4.1 million people exposed in July cyberattack
AdaptHealth confirmed a ShinyHunters-attributed cyberattack exposed data of 4.1 million patients via a compromised third-party contractor account.
Healthcare company AdaptHealth confirmed 4,115,802 individuals were exposed in an intrusion first disclosed in an SEC filing on July 2, 2026, with the compromise beginning June 5. Attackers used social engineering to compromise a privileged third-party contractor account, accessed cloud-based patient management, document storage and EHR portals, and exfiltrated names, contact details, demographic, insurance and health information before a June 15 ransom demand. The attack was attributed to the ShinyHunters group, though the company no longer appears on the gang's extortion portal. Impacted individuals are being offered 12 months of free credit monitoring and identity protection.
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Electronic health record company says customer data stolen in breach
Veradigm disclosed that attackers used stolen vendor credentials via an API to steal patient data including Social Security numbers, as the Gentlemen ransomware gang claims 3.5 million patients' records.
Electronic health records company Veradigm filed an 8-K with the SEC stating that an unauthorized party obtained credentials from a vendor's environment and used them to access a Veradigm API, downloading patients' personal data including Social Security numbers; no clinical or medical data was involved. The Gentlemen ransomware gang added Veradigm to its leak site, claiming theft of 3.5 million patients' health records. Access was limited to the specific API interface, with no operational disruption. Veradigm was previously hit by SamSam ransomware in 2019 and disclosed a December 2024 breach affecting 2,672,036 people.
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Health data of more than 9.5 million people leaked from Aesto record system
Health data firm Aesto reported a breach affecting over 9.5 million people after hackers accessed its AWS infrastructure between December 2 and 18.
Alabama-based healthcare data company Aesto notified the Department of Health and Human Services that more than 9.5 million people had sensitive information leaked in a December cyberattack, after previously warning customers in June without disclosing scope. Attackers broke into the company's Amazon Web Services infrastructure between December 2 and December 18, stealing names, Social Security numbers, medical information, driver's license numbers, financial account numbers, and health insurance data. Aesto provides data migration and archiving services for medical facilities, and at least 30 healthcare organizations were affected, with breach notices filed for customers including Together Women's Health. Related healthcare incidents disclosed this year include Baylor Genetics (2.8 million people), CareCloud (3.7 million), and recent attacks at McKesson, Nutex, Paylogix, and Park Dental Partners.
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