There seem to be few to no protections that ensure patients continue to get care for the most urgent health matters while hospital cyber systems are offline.
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Central Maine Healthcare notifies patients of data breach in June
While the hospital system’s computers were down following the breach, patients reported barriers to care and medications for urgent health concerns.
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Lewiston’s Central Maine Healthcare hit with lawsuits over alleged data breach
A motion to consolidate the class action lawsuits into one was still being considered by the court as of Friday.
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Was your info taken in the Lewiston hospital breach? Here’s what to know
The data breach stems from an incident in late May prompting St. Mary’s Health System to take its computer data system offline.
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Hannaford data breach affected more than 95,000 Mainers
Dutch-based parent company Ahold Delhaize USA encourages affected individuals to remain vigilant in protecting their personal information.
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Hannaford’s parent company says employees’ and customers’ information compromised in cyber breach
Information compromised in November varies per person but includes Social Security and banking numbers, home addresses, phone numbers and health data, Ahold Delhaize said.
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Lewiston-area patients left waiting for care after hospital cyber incidents
Two health care systems were breached in subsequent weeks, leaving many patients scrambling. What — and who — caused them remains unknown.
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Why cyber attacks are increasingly targeting hospitals
The incidents that caused outages at two Lewiston-based hospital systems come at a time when cyber attacks on health care organizations are skyrocketing.
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Uncle Henry’s back online following ransomware attack
Company president Kevin Webb said no sensitive personal information was compromised during the hack, which forced the business to shut its website down for nearly a month.
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Suit accuses Camden National Bank of selling customer data to Meta, Google
The class-action lawsuit says the bank tracks and sells sensitive financial and personal information to improve marketing campaigns and data analytics.