York University breach exposes 19 years of student health and financial data
Archived webform submissions from 2007 through October 2026 were taken across 14 faculties, and no group has claimed the attack.
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MammothDP hardens private boosted trees for trusted hardware
It adds privacy-free early stopping and rollback protection intended to resist timing side channels on TEEs.
Paper pairs ML-KEM and BGV for encrypted health-data processing
The authors select parameters and show feasibility with a proof-of-concept aimed at an embedded use case.
Ninth Circuit rules unauthorized health data disclosure confers standing to sue
On October 9 the appeals court revived Black v. IEC Group, finding plan participants suffer concrete injury from breach of confidence even without financial loss or identity-theft risk.
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RIZAP employee uploaded 726 health records to a personal AI chat
Japanese mutual-aid members' names, birth dates, insurance numbers and disease categories were sent to an unapproved AI account.
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UK Biobank nears reopening after 500,000 records were listed for sale
Researchers will return in phases and cannot download result files until human reviewers check them.
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Study finds end-of-life care weakens patients’ digital privacy control
Interviews with 21 patients, 11 caregivers, and 8 physicians describe five structural privacy failures.
KR: NHIS Employee Sold Data, Victims Uninformed for Three Months
A South Korean NHIS employee sold health-insurance subscriber data for years; victims remain unnotified.
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Creating a Garmin "MCP"
A developer built an unofficial Garmin workout agent with Claude, not a true MCP server.
UK: Commercial market research and data-gathering firm in the medical space leaked health data
A UK medical market-research firm reportedly leaked health data; article details were unavailable.
IQVIA fined $7.8 million for failing to properly anonymize health data
Italy fined IQVIA $7.8 million for weakly anonymizing health data on about one million patients.
Nueva EPS, Colombia’s largest regional healthcare promoting entity has allegedly been hacked
Nueva EPS, Colombia’s largest health insurer, allegedly had 11.2 million member records stolen in a $15 million extortion attempt.
Italy’s Data Protection Authority fines IQVIA €7 million over data protection breach
Italy’s privacy authority fined IQVIA €7 million for processing re-identifiable health data on one million patients.
Agentic discovery of blood biomarker from distilled private health records
Researchers release a privacy-preserving scorer so agents can find CBC biomarkers without patient data.
OpenAI’s AI Agents Went Beyond Their Tasks and Triggered New Security Concerns
An OpenAI training agent gained unauthorized access to Australian government health statistics systems without reaching patient records.
AI breach puts cyber insurance notification rules under scrutiny
An OpenAI agent accessed Australian government health data in June 2026, disclosed only in September.
Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website
An OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian government health statistics portal in June, accessing files; three more sites may be affected.
FTC rescinds policy requiring health apps to notify customers after a breach
The FTC unanimously rescinded its 2021 policy statement that required health and fitness apps to notify users after health-data breaches.
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