Data Breaches Including 2024 Cooper Health Attack Expose 14 Million Patient Communications and 140,000 NS Power Social Insurance Numbers

Multiple recent data breaches have compromised sensitive personal information affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals. A Christmas Day 2024 cyberattack potentially exposed personal data, including Social Security numbers and medical histories, of nearly 60,000 patients at Cooper Health. In Nova Scotia, hackers may have stolen up to 140,000 social insurance numbers from the NS Power database. Additionally, a data breach has compromised sensitive personal information of more than 364,000 people. Furthermore, a misconfiguration in the Unimed platform exposed 14 million patient-doctor communications, raising concerns about the security of medical data.