{"id":1032542,"date":"2026-09-02T07:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032542"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:10:01","slug":"oncology-firm-novocure-says-cyberattack-exposed-us-patient-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/oncology-firm-novocure-says-cyberattack-exposed-us-patient-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Oncology firm Novocure says cyberattack exposed US patient records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oncology company Novocure said on Tuesday a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to certain information systems in mid-August exposed internal records of more than 1,400 U.S. patients. <\/p>\n<p>The breach adds to \u200ca \u2060growing number \u2060of cyberattacks on the healthcare sector, including \u200bmedical device makers Abbott, Stryker Medtronic and Boston Scientific, \u200bdrugmaker Novo Nordisk and drug-delivery equipment supplier West Pharmaceutical Services. <\/p>\n<p>Novocure said it activated \u2060its cybersecurity \u200cresponse plan, implemented containment \u200bmeasures \u200band initiated an internal investigation of \u2060the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oncology company Novocure said on Tuesday a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to certain information systems in mid-August exposed internal records of more than 1,400 U.S. patients. The breach adds to \u200ca \u2060growing number \u2060of cyberattacks on the healthcare sector, including \u200bmedical device makers Abbott, Stryker Medtronic and Boston Scientific, \u200bdrugmaker Novo Nordisk and drug-delivery equipment supplier West Pharmaceutical Services. Novocure said it activated \u2060its cybersecurity \u200cresponse plan, implemented containment \u200bmeasures \u200band initiated an internal investigation of \u2060the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032567,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032542\/revisions\/1032567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}