German Hospitals Suffer Patient Data Breach via Unimed Billing

German university hospitals are facing a significant patient data breach caused by hackers targeting an external billing service provider named Unimed, which processes billing for multiple hospitals across Germany. Reports indicate that the hack occurred in mid-April, leading to the theft of patient information, while hospital clinical infrastructures remained unaffected.

Affected hospitals include those in Cologne, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Ulm, and Mannheim, each experiencing varying degrees of data breach severity.