Veterans Affairs leaders on Monday announced the next 13 sites to receive the department’s embattled new electronic health records system, including multiple facilities in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
Although Oracle has denied its cloud infrastructure services were breached, security experts recommend Oracle customers independently verify if they were affected and take measures to reduce exposure to potential fallout.
Oracle Health, formerly known as Cerner, is a healthcare software-as-a-service (SaaS) company offering Electronic Health Records (EHR) and business operations systems to hospitals and healthcare organizations. After being acquired by Oracle in 2022, Cerner was merged into Oracle Health, with its systems migrated to Oracle Cloud.
A threat actor has reportedly breached Oracle Cloud infrastructure, exfiltrating six million sensitive authentication records and potentially endangering more than 140,000 enterprise customers. The attacker is now demanding ransom payments while actively marketing the stolen data on underground forums, according to threat intelligence firm CloudSEK.
Researchers are developing an injection that creates a contraceptive implant in the body using an approach that could herald a new way of delivering drugs over long periods of time. Current contraceptive implants last for years, meaning women do not have to take a pill every day, but the devices must be fitted by a trained professional via a small surgical procedure. Now scientists say they have completed proof-of-concept experiments for a new type of long-lasting implant that self-assembles in the body.
23andMe states that if it's involved in a bankruptcy or sale, customers' personal data may also be sold or transferred. It also provides a relatively straightforward way for customers to delete their data and request that their genetic samples be destroyed.