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Boston Scientific Reveals Global Disruption After Cyber Incident

MedTech giant Boston Scientific disclosed a cyber incident causing IT outages and disruption across its global operations.

Boston Scientific revealed that a cyber incident triggered IT outages disrupting its worldwide operations. The medical device manufacturer has not yet confirmed whether data was accessed or whether ransomware is involved. Details on scope and impact remain limited as the investigation continues.

Infosecurity Magazine · 20d agoData breach

ShinyHunters claims it stole 284 million patient records from McKesson

ShinyHunters claims theft of 284 million patient records from McKesson via vishing, Okta takeover, and Salesforce/Snowflake access, demanding $55,236,150.

McKesson disclosed in an SEC filing a cybersecurity incident detected August 25, 2026, involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and data exfiltration affecting a subset of customers in its Oncology & Multispecialty and Medical-Surgical business units. ShinyHunters told BleepingComputer it entered through vishing calls to employees, used stolen credentials to take over Okta single sign-on accounts, and extracted about a terabyte of data from Salesforce and Snowflake environments over four days. The group claims 284 million database rows including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, Medicaid details, medical record numbers, and medication data, and demanded $55,236,150 with a 72-hour deadline; none of these claims have been independently verified.

Help Net Security · 16d agoData breach

Cyberattack causes network outage at Boston Scientific, disrupts global operations

Boston Scientific disclosed a cyberattack that caused a network outage, disrupting global operations including order processing and shipping.

The medical device maker detected the incident on August 25, activated incident response protocols with third-party cybersecurity experts, and told the SEC that access to systems supporting operations, including order processing and shipping, was disrupted. Boston Scientific employs about 59,000 people across 127 countries and posted more than $20 billion in net sales in 2025; it has not determined whether the incident is material and no group has claimed responsibility. The company joins a recent run of medtech attacks including Stryker, iRhythm, Novo Nordisk and Xsolis.

Help Net Security · 20d agoData breach

LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack - Technology, Banking and Healthcare the Most Affected

TeamPCP planted the SANDCLOCK credential stealer in LiteLLM PyPI releases, exposing credentials across 2,038 repositories at 898 organizations including Microsoft and NVIDIA.

Threat actor TeamPCP compromised LiteLLM maintainer credentials and published malicious versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 to PyPI around March 2026, creating an exposure window of several months. The SANDCLOCK credential stealer exposed full credential sets across 898 GitHub owners and 2,038 repositories, including Microsoft, Azure, IBM, NVIDIA, PayPal, Deloitte, Bosch, and S&P Global. Stolen material includes GitHub CI/CD identities, AWS/GCP/Firebase credentials, SSH keys, Kubernetes secrets, and OpenAI and Anthropic API keys; Resecurity acquired a 150GB archive with 2,146 credential records. Technology, banking/finance, and healthcare organizations are the most affected sectors, and victims must rotate all exposed credentials.

Security Affairs · 29d agoMalware in the wild