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A Canadian healthcare company that develops cardiac monitoring software has revealed it was the victim of a hack that has seriously disrupted its operations.
CardioComm Solutions made the announcement in a disclosure to investors, declaring that the company’s operations could be impacted for “several days and potentially longer” after a hack on its internal servers.
However, CardioComm has said it is unaware of any patient data that has been affected. CardioComm said in the disclosure that it does collect patient data, as the software it provides to its customers runs on its own personal server environments.
Currently, the company’s website is down, showing only a warning of the disruption and the list of services affected.
“Please be advised we are experiencing down time to our services which iclude [sic],” the site said, before listing Global Cardio 3, GEMS Flex 12, GEMS Home Flex upload, and HeartCheck CardiBeat/GEMS Mobile ECG/RPM ability to record/upload.
CardioComm has said it is investigating if any employee data has been affected. According to the company’s LinkedIn page, it has 16 employees.
“The company has launched a comprehensive investigation to fully ascertain the source and extent of any data breach and is working closely with KPMG-EGYDE,” the disclosure read, “relevant authorities and third-party cyber security experts to support these efforts in accordance with industry best practices”.
“CardioComm’s business operations will be impacted for several days and potentially longer depending [on] how quickly the company is able to restore its data and re-establishes its production server environments.”
CardioComm sells wearable devices for recording cardiograms for monitoring diagnosis purposes, and its products are sold worldwide to individual customers and hospitals.
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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