medical data

Hackers stole 340,000 Social Security numbers from government consulting firm

U.S. consulting firm Greylock McKinnon Associates (GMA) disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole as many as 341,650 Social Security numbers. The data breach was disclosed on Friday on Maine’s

Another huge US medical data breach confirmed after Fortra mass-hack

Hackers stole another half a million people’s personal and health information during a ransomware attack on a technology vendor earlier this year. Intellihartx, a Tennessee-based company that ha

Google faces fresh class action-style suit in UK over DeepMind NHS patient data scandal

Google is facing a new class-action style lawsuit in the U.K. in relation to a health data scandal that broke back in 2016, when it emerged that its AI division, DeepMind, had been passed data on more

Siilo injects $5.1M to try to transplant WhatsApp use in hospitals

Consumer messaging apps like WhatsApp are not only insanely popular for chatting with friends but have pushed deep into the workplace too, thanks to the speed and convenience they offer. They have eve

Concerns raised over broad scope of DeepMind-NHS health data-sharing deal

Concerns have been raised about the scope of a data-sharing agreement between Google-owned DeepMind and the UK's National Health Service (NHS) after it was revealed the agreement covers access to wide

By Helping Big Pharma Better Understand Your Local Doctor, Medikly May Just Be Tapping Into A Goldmine

<a target="_blank" href="http://medikly.com/">Medikly</a>, a startup that aims to help pharmaceutical companies reach and better understand physicians, announced today that it has raised $1.2 million