Three Health Groups Report 2024 Hacks Affecting 1.2 Million
February 4, 2025 – Published on DataBreachToday
Three healthcare organizations – including a California hospital and outpatient care provider, an Alabama cardiology practice, and a Colorado community health system, are notifying a total of more than 1.2 million individuals that their sensitive information was compromised in 2024 hacks.
The incidents are part of an ongoing, troubling spree of cybercriminal attacks hitting a wide variety of healthcare providers and their suppliers that end up affecting wide swaths of patients.
The reports of large healthcare breaches follows recent threat intelligence reports of cybercriminals increasingly targeting the health sector. Healthcare was the fourth most targeted sectors by ransomware groups last year, security firm GuidePoint Security said in a recent report.
Cybercriminal groups RansomHub, LockBit and BianLian – which claimed to be behind the attack on River Regional Cardiology – were the most active in the healthcare sector, GuidePoint said.
Healthcare sector victims were once considered “taboo” for ransomware groups due to the additional scrutiny that such attacks could garner from law enforcement, GuidePoint wrote.
“However, established groups have appeared emboldened to openly claim healthcare victims in 2024, possibly spurned by the success of Alphv’s alleged payment in the wake” of the Change Healthcare attack, GuidePoint Security wrote.
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