PHI of Nearly 69,000 Individuals Exposed in Comstar Hacking Incident Comstar located in Rowley, MA offers ambulance billing, collection, ePCR Hosting, and patient/client services. It…
Shields Health Care Group is confronted with a class-action lawsuit because of the 2 million-record data breach it recently reported. This is the largest healthcare…
The protected health information (PHI) of approximately 2 million persons was possibly exposed in a cyberattack on Shields Health Care Group. Shields Health Care Group…
Microsoft has released a security alert and has given a solution to stop a zero-day vulnerability identified in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT)…
In March 2022, Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) stated that third-party forensic experts were involved to help recover the service of its IT solutions subsequent…
The medical equipment firm NuLife Med LLC located in Manchester, NH, has lately reported that it suffered a cyberattack in March 2022. It detected suspicious…
Healthplex Inc., one of the biggest dental insurance companies based in New York, has reported the compromise of an employee’s email account because of a…
An Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident (OCCI) checklist published by the Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) works as a versatile template for dealing…
Numerous healthcare data breaches are happening, yet not all privacy and security problems originate from beyond the company. The Department of Health and Human Services’…
Deaconess Health System based in Indiana and Blue Earth County based in Minnesota have informed individuals who had their sensitive personal data has accessed by…
The law firm BakerHostetler has shared its 8th Annual Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report, which offers insights according to 1,270 data security incidents managed…
An audit of the Health Insurance Exchange of Connecticut, Access Health CT, by the state auditor showed that Access Health CT encountered 44 data breaches…
Horizon Actuarial Services, Clinic of North Texas, and Parkland Community Health Plan have just announced breaches of the protected health information (PHI) of patients and…
Healthcare hacking incidents are considerably increasing for several years. Hacking/IT incidents went up by 45% from 2019 to 2020. In 2021, 66% of breaches relating…
2021 was awful in terms of healthcare data breaches having more than 50 million records exposed and around 900 data breaches documented by databreaches.net. Given…
Email account breach reports were filed by Montrose Regional Health, Acacia Network, and EPIC Pharmacy Network. Montrose Regional Health The health system Montrose Regional Health…
In the latest blog post, Director Lisa J. Pino of the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights told HIPAA-regulated entities to do something to fortify their…
According to the annual threat report published by CrowdStrike, there were a lot more data leaks right after ransomware attacks in 2021, increasing by 82%…
Cybersecurity agencies in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, issued a joint security advisory concerning the greater worldwide threat of ransomware attacks and…
Hackers have acquired access to email accounts comprising protected health information (PHI) at Volunteers of America Southwest California, iRise Florida Spine and Joint Institute, and…
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule necessitates the issuance of a data breach notification letter to the Secretary of the HHS “without unnecessary delay” and no…
New York Attorney General Letitia James reported the first settlement of 2022 involving a healthcare data breach. The vision benefits company in Ohio, Med Vision…
QRS, a healthcare technology services firm and EHR vendor in Tennessee, is confronted with a class-action lawsuit related to a cyberattack in August 2021 that…
The health data management services provider CIOX Health suffered a data breach that has impacted a minimum of 32 healthcare companies. Last July 2021, CIOX…
Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) has just informed 79,943 existing and former patients regarding unauthorized individuals that may have viewed or obtained some of their…
The Medical Review Institute of America (MRoiA) encountered an alleged ransomware attack in November 2021 that resulted in the theft of sensitive patient data. MRoiA…
The CyberPeace Institute has published new information on cyberattacks in the healthcare sector. As per the most current stats, 295 cyberattacks are identified to have…
In March 2021, Broward County Public Schools located in Florida suffered a ransomware attack resulting in the encryption of its data files. Based on the…
Sound Generations based in Seattle, WA, has reported that unauthorized people have acquired access to its internal networks and have utilized ransomware for file encryption….
One Community Health located in Sacramento, CA has lately informed patients about the compromise of its systems from April 19 to April 20, 2021. It…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have informed businesses in the U.S. concerning the higher risk of…
Lakeshore Bone & Joint Institute, an Orthopedic practice located in Indiana, has suffered a breach that impacted its Microsoft Office 365 account, including email messages…
Prairie Lakes Healthcare System Hacked Prairie Lakes Healthcare System located in Watertown, S.D. has discovered that an unauthorized man or woman has obtained access to…
Family of Woodstock (FOW), a New York company providing crisis intervention, information, protection, and support solutions, has encountered a cyberattack that caused the potential exposure…
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and Website Planet discovered an unsecured database owned by Deep6.ai, an American medical AI platform provider. The database comprised over 800…
Health plan members of Anthem who have End-Stage Kidney Disease and are registered in the VillageHealth program were informed regarding the possible exposure of some…
Based on the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 80% of all reported cyberattacks in 2019 are caused by phishing and from the start of the…
The not-for-profit Catholic health system located in Peoria, IL, OSF HealthCare, began informing 53,907 patients regarding a cyberattack that was uncovered on April 23, 2021….
Although there were no reported incidents of death of American patients as a direct consequence of a ransomware attack, new research indicates an increase in…
Healthcare companies that must abide by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are dealing with difficulties reaching compliance, based on a new study publicized in…
Jackson Health has begun looking into a patient privacy violation case after a nurse posted images on Facebook of a baby that has a birth…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a notice to all public and private sector establishments…
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had been impersonated in a phishing attack that has ended in the breach of the protected health information…
Electromed Inc. based in New Prague, MN, is a developer and maker of airway clearance devices. It has reported a security breach that occurred in…
A2Z Diagnostics, a specialist diagnostic testing laboratory in New Jersey, has begun alerting patients about the inclusion of some of their protected health information (PHI)…
Francisco J. Pabalan MD of Pabalan Eye Center based in Riverside, CA has said a ransomware attack has impacted approximately 50,000 patients. The center found…
Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, WA has offered a settlement to take care of a class-action lawsuit it is facing. Victims of a breach…
The medical payment billing service company MultiPlan had reported a breach of its email system. On January 27, 2021, suspicious activity was discovered in the…
A man from Texas was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment right after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to acquire data from a protected…
Dominion National in Virginia, an insurance provider, a health plan manager, and a dental and vision benefits manager, has consented to resolve a class-action lawsuit…