Liquid Biopsy specialist, Guardant Health faced a cybersecurity attack.
The private information from about 1,100 individuals was compromised.
They experienced a security incident involving a phishing attack, and an unauthorized user obtained access to an email account of one of their employees.
The information accessed primarily includes patients’ names, contact information, birth dates, medical diagnosis codes, and, in a very limited number of cases, Social Security numbers.
Source: https://www.mddionline.com/business/guardant-exposed-cybersecurity-threat-phishing-scheme
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/guardanthealth
"id": "gua056311022",
"linkid": "guardanthealth",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "09/2018",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 1100,
'industry': 'Healthcare',
'name': 'Guardant Health',
'type': 'Organization'}],
'attack_vector': 'Phishing',
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 1100,
'personally_identifiable_information': True,
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Patients’ names',
'Contact information',
'Birth dates',
'Medical diagnosis codes',
'Social Security numbers']},
'description': 'Liquid Biopsy specialist, Guardant Health faced a '
'cybersecurity attack. The private information from about '
'1,100 individuals was compromised. They experienced a '
'security incident involving a phishing attack, and an '
'unauthorized user obtained access to an email account of one '
'of their employees. The information accessed primarily '
'includes patients’ names, contact information, birth dates, '
'medical diagnosis codes, and, in a very limited number of '
'cases, Social Security numbers.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Patients’ names',
'Contact information',
'Birth dates',
'Medical diagnosis codes',
'Social Security numbers']},
'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'Phishing email'},
'title': 'Cybersecurity Attack on Guardant Health',
'type': 'Data Breach',
'vulnerability_exploited': 'Email Account Compromise'}