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Icon falls victim to data breach
Oncology care provider confirms incident involving unauthorised access to patient information Australia’s largest cancer care provider, Icon Oncology Group, is the latest victim of a hacker known as 2019. The …
Pharmacies face rising cyber threat: Fred
Increasing numbers of pharmacies are falling victim to cyber-attacks, Fred IT Group reports Pharmacy owners and managers are being urged to take steps to strengthen their cyber defenses following a …
Pharmacy issues apology over data breach
Services Australia estimates close to 109,000 patients may have been impacted in a ransomware attack on a pharmacy management group earlier this year Patients who provided personal information to a Sydney …
Top 5 passwords exposed in data breaches
NAB unveils Australia’s most hackable passwords – if you are using them your business data could be at risk Pharmacists urged to steer clear of commonly used passwords, as healthcare …
Nurse arrested over data breach
NSW Health employee facing charges of allegedly accessing and downloading patient data without authorisation Cybercrime detectives are investigating a 59-year-old nurse working in the Northern Sydney Local Health District over …
MediSecure attack Australia’s biggest data breach
Electronic prescription exchange “cyber incident” impacts close to 13 million patients Former electronic prescription exchange, MediSecure, has reported that “approximately 12.9 million individuals may have been impacted” when a ransomware …
MediSecure attack unlikely to be last
Healthcare businesses urged to be vigilant following last week’s large-scale data breach of e-script provider MediSecure National Cyber Security Coordinator, Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, is warning healthcare providers that while …
Script data breach exposes third-party vulnerabilities
E-script provider hit with large-scale ransomware data breach Cyber security experts say a major data breach affecting customers of script provider MediSecure is a nationally significant incident, which will test …
Data breaches on the rise
Healthcare providers continue to top the list for data breach notifications with malicious attacks and human error as the main factors More than one-in-five data breaches reported to the Office …
Pharmacist dismissed over data breaches
Hospital pharmacist dismissed after accessing thousands of patient records without authorisation An investigation into a data breach at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital has revealed that a pharmacist accessed more than 7000 medical …
Healthcare data breaches dip
Australia’s health sector is continuing to record the highest number of notifiable data breaches of any industry, despite fall in incident numbers, report reveals Data from the Office of the …
Data breaches fuel patient privacy concerns
Pharmacists must be mindful of privacy and confidentiality obligations when accessing patients’ My Health Records (MHRs) All pharmacy staff need to be trained on their store’s privacy and confidentiality policies …