Cyberattacks and data breaches have escalated in the healthcare sector, costing millions and threatening patient safety. Major breaches in 2024 included ransomware attacks on UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare, impacting 100 million Americans and crippling payments, and on Ascension, affecting operations in 11 states and contributing to a $1.1bn net loss. Data breaches are also rising, with CMS and HealthEquity exposing personal health information of over 900,000 people and 4.3 million members respectively in 2024.

New MongoDB Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Uninitialized Memory
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in MongoDB that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS


