About RealCyberNews
RealCyberNews covers breaches and cyberattacks against hospitals, health systems, water utilities, energy providers, and other critical infrastructure — written for patients, employees, and residents affected by them, not just IT departments.
Why healthcare and infrastructure specifically
A breach at a hospital or a water utility isn't the same as one at a social network — it can affect patient care, prescriptions, and physical safety, not just a password. These incidents are also chronically under-covered: general tech news focuses on the handful of breaches large enough to make national headlines, while hundreds of smaller regional incidents — a hospital system, a school district, a utility — get a mandatory notification letter and no coverage at all. We focus specifically on that gap.
Who publishes this site
RealCyberNews is published by the RealCyberNews Editorial Team. Articles are written from public breach-notification filings, regulatory disclosures, and vendor/company statements, and are corrected promptly when we get something wrong — see below.
Editorial standards
- We cite the source of every factual claim about a specific breach — a notification letter, regulatory filing, or official statement.
- We distinguish clearly between confirmed facts and unconfirmed reports.
- Coverage decisions are never influenced by whether a company or its vendors advertise with us or participate in our affiliate programs.
- If we get a fact wrong, we correct the article and note the correction — we don't quietly edit it.
How this site makes money
Some links on this site — particularly around password managers and identity protection — are affiliate links. If you sign up through one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend tools that address the actual risk described in the article, and affiliate relationships never influence which breaches we cover or how we describe them.
Your privacy on this site
The breach-check tool queries your email against known breach databases to check exposure. We don't store the email you enter beyond what's needed to prevent abuse of the tool, and we never see or ask for your password.
The organization-check tool runs entirely in your browser against a public dataset file — the organization name you search is never sent to us or logged anywhere.
The HIPAA readiness checklist, including the optional "completed by" fields on the downloadable report, also runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is transmitted or stored — the PDF and CSV are generated on your own device.
Corrections and tips
Spotted an error, or have a tip about a breach affecting a hospital, utility, or other critical infrastructure that hasn't been covered? Contact the editorial team attips@realcybernews.com.