Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical giant behind Wegovy and Ozempic, has disclosed that attackers copied data from its internal IT systems, including information on patients in some of its clinical trials. The company stressed the patient data was de-identified, containing fields like patient ID, year of birth, sex, biomarkers, and lifestyle factors rather than names or direct identifiers. Novo has not said how many people are affected or named the attacker, and is not offering credit monitoring, instead advising patients and healthcare professionals to stay alert for unexpected messages or calls. Pharma firms are increasingly targeted for their valuable research and patient data.
Have I Been Pwned has added US dental-benefits provider DentaQuest to its breach corpus with 2,553,599 unique email addresses. DentaQuest is one of the largest dental and vision benefits administrators in the United States, serving Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial members. As is typical for HIBP additions, the underlying breach source and disclosure details are not published alongside the entry, but the listing lets individuals and organizations check whether their accounts appear in the leaked dataset. Healthcare and insurance data carries elevated risk: affected members should anticipate benefits-themed phishing, claim-status lures, and identity-theft attempts, and should rotate any reused passwords. It is among the larger US healthcare-adjacent breaches surfacing recently.
The Oncology Institute, a US outpatient cancer-care network, has filed an SEC 8-K confirming that patient information was exposed in a third-party vendor breach. Kroll, acting as the vendor's third-party administrator, notified the company on May 20 that unauthorized access had been detected. The vendor is not officially named, but multiple reports point to Cognizant-owned TriZetto Provider Solutions, which previously disclosed a breach in March 2026 affecting more than 3.4 million patients via its provider-portal infrastructure. The Oncology Institute first flagged the incident in a November 2025 8-K. The vendor has set up a patient portal for inquiries.
OpenLoop Health, an Iowa-based telehealth infrastructure company that supplies clinicians and prescription processing to dozens of consumer telehealth platforms, has confirmed via the HHS breach portal that a January 2026 incident affected 716,000 individuals. Attackers were inside its systems for only one day - January 7 to 8 - but exfiltrated names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, and medical information. Social Security numbers and electronic health records were not accessed. A threat actor called Stuckin2019 claimed responsibility and put samples on a hacking forum; OpenLoop reportedly paid them and the listing was taken down. Because OpenLoop is white-label, affected patients enrolled through many different consumer telehealth brands.
Aisle, an AI-driven application security firm, ran its analyzer over OpenEMR's source code and found 38 previously unknown vulnerabilities, including two with maximum severity (CVSS 10.0). OpenEMR is the open-source electronic health records system used by 100,000 healthcare providers serving 200 million patients. The two critical bugs let attackers reach into patient databases without logging in: CVE-2026-24898 lets any unauthenticated visitor receive the medical practice's API tokens by sending a single POST request, and CVE-2026-24908 is a SQL injection in the patient REST API. OpenEMR has now patched all 38.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence published a detailed report on Storm-1175, a China-based financially motivated group that deploys Medusa ransomware at extreme speed - sometimes moving from initial access to full ransomware deployment within 24 hours. The group exploits internet-facing systems using a mix of zero-day and recently disclosed (n-day) vulnerabilities, having weaponized over 16 flaws across 10 products since 2023. Two vulnerabilities were exploited as zero-days a full week before public disclosure. Recent targets include healthcare, education, finance, and professional services organizations in the US, UK, and Australia. Their playbook: exploit a web-facing flaw, create persistence via new accounts and web shells, steal credentials with Mimikatz, disable Defender via registry modifications, exfiltrate data with Rclone, then deploy Medusa across the network.
Healthcare software company CareCloud disclosed to the SEC that hackers breached one of its six electronic health record environments on March 16, gaining access to patient medical data for approximately eight hours. The company serves over 40,000 healthcare providers. It's still investigating whether data was exfiltrated, but classified the incident as material on March 24 due to the sensitivity of the records. No ransomware group has claimed the attack.
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