Documents – Health

Report: Ransomware op leaks 48,000 documents stolen from New Jersey hospital

University Hospital in New Jersey has experienced a 48,000-document data breach, according to reporting from security researcher Ax Sharma at BleepingComputer. According to Sharma, the Newark-based hospital’s records appear to be among those leaked by SunCrypt, a ransomware operation that began hosting a dedicated leak site earlier this year. The data leak, which has since been removed… Read More »

Sacklers Directed Efforts to Mislead Public About OxyContin, New Documents Indicate

Members of the Sackler family, which owns the company that makes OxyContin, directed years of efforts to mislead doctors and patients about the dangers of the powerful opioid painkiller, a court filing citing previously undisclosed documents contends. When evidence of growing abuse of the drug became clear in the early 2000s, one of them, Richard… Read More »