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Downtown Toronto hospital investigating ‘data security incident’

A major downtown Toronto hospital is investigating what it calls a data security incident. Michael Garron Hospital, part of a group of healthcare institutions called the Toronto East Health Network, said on its website that it learned of the incident earlier this week. “We are actively investigating and assessing the impact of the incident with

Data on 3.4 million mothers, children stolen from Ontario registry

The registry, called BORN, is one of the latest -- and biggest -- victims of the MOVEit file transfer server vul

Data of about 26,000 patients may have been copied from Toronto hospital group

Group says "unusual firewall activity" was first detected in June, after which a threat actor was removed from two ap

WHO fears myopia influx

Computer and smartphone screen usage has been related to progressive eye diseases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), by 2050, more than half...

Management, lack of money blamed for poor cybersecurity at Canadian hospitals

Healthcare experts told a webinar that legacy IT systems, lack of money are hindering security at Canadian

Toronto hospital network says IT problems not caused by cyber attack

The University Health Network is still investigating the cause, but says the problems 'were entirely

Breaking News: Toronto children’s hospital confirms it was hit by ransomware

The impact of the ransomware attack that hit Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children may last for weeks. In an online statement today the hospital said it anticipates that it will be a matter of weeks before all systems are functioning as normal. There is no evidence to date that personal information or personal health information

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children dealing with cybersecurity incident

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children is still dealing with a cybersecurity incident so serious it declared a ‘Code Grey’ — meaning an IT system failure. On Monday, the hospital said the incident appears to have only impacted a few internal clinical and corporate systems, as well as some hospital phone lines and webpages. “All patient

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