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Europe's hospitals absorbed another blow to patient privacy: France's data-protection regulator fined the Hôpital Privé de la Loire in Saint-Étienne €500,000 after a cyberattack exposed the health records of more than 727,000 people — one entry in a wave that has left European hospital IT…
The fortnight's gravest healthcare story was a device maker going dark: a cyberattack knocked Boston Scientific's global operations offline, halting shipments of pacemakers and cardiac stents to hospitals worldwide and leaving newly implanted patients unable to pair their heart devices to…
The week's toll fell on patients' most sensitive records: the health-tech firm CareCloud confirmed that intruders took the medical files, insurance details and Social Security numbers of 3.75 million people from a short intrusion into its cloud, one of the year's largest health-data…