San Juan Regional Medical Center has lately informed thousands of its patients regarding a security breach that took place in the fall of 2020. The…
Many U.S. employers have put in place a policy that calls for their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, which includes a number of big…
Hillrom medical device management tools had been discovered to have two medium severity vulnerabilities that could cause the leakage of sensitive information, corruption of information,…
Stephen Yackey of Securifera discovered five vulnerabilities in the AmegaView continuous monitoring system of MesaLabs, which is employed in hospital labs, forensics laboratories, and biotech…
A Michigan male has confessed to hacking into the human resource data storage of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center from 2013 to 2014 and…
SEIU 775 Benefits Group in Washington has informed around 140,000 of its members regarding the exposure of some of their protected health information (PHI). Around…
The Pennsylvania Department of Health along with its COVID-19 contact tracing vendor are being sued due to a breach of the personal and health information…
Lawmakers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are asking for a data breach to be investigated. The incident pertains to the contact tracing information of 72,000…
A joint cybersecurity notice was given by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…
Total Health Care Inc., a health plan based in Detroit, MI, found out that unauthorized people have acquired access to a number of staff email…
The new information blocking and interoperability rules created by the Department of Health and Human Services included in the 21st Century Cures Act became effective…
The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics located in Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia found out that unauthorized persons got access to the email accounts of several…
A ransomware attack on Accellion, a file transfer service company, permitted unauthorized individuals to access the protected health information (PHI) of University of Miami Health…
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and the Charles Hilton and Associates law company are confronting a class action lawsuit due to a breach of…
A former nurse at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center admitted to a crime of tampering with a consumer item in a case that involves fraudulence…
On March 4, 2021, Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), and Reps. Mikie Sherrill (D-New Jersey) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey) authored a letter recommending…
Microsoft has introduced out-of-band security changes to deal with the four zero-day Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities which a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group identified…
All through the pandemic, cybercriminals took advantage of new opportunities and have been attacking hospitals, medical clinics, and other companies and organizations on the front…
A Campbell County Health (CCH) employee made an email error that resulted in the impermissible disclosure of the protected health information (PHI) of 900 people….
A female who was employed in a medical research laboratory at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH was sent to jail for theft of…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an announcement about the seizure of a dark web website utilized by the NetWalker ransomware gang in connection…
In May 2020, the cloud software corporation Blackbaud encountered a ransomware attack. As is typical in human-operated ransomware attacks, the attackers exfiltrated files before file…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed the $4,348,000 HIPAA violation charges enforced by the Department of Health and Human Services’…
On January 5, 2020, President Trump signed a bill (HR 7898) that makes changes to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act…
A vulnerability was found in Zyxel devices such as firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point (AP) controllers that hackers may take advantage of to get…
The DHS’ Cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Agency has published a website with resources concerning the recent activities of the advanced persistent threat (APT) group liable…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has arrived at a settlement deal with Peter Wrobel, M.D., P.C., dba Elite…
A seasonal staff at a tech firm in Virginia got sentenced to 42 months imprisonment for accessing patient files, theft of personally identifiable information (PII),…
Rave Mobile Safety has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Solution that will make it possible for public health agencies to determine who should receive priority…
University of Minnesota Physicians lately encountered a phishing attack that made it possible for unauthorized persons to get access to two employees’ email accounts. One…
Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS) sent a notification about a potential breach of the protected health information (PHI) of 37,000 persons due to several…
The HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has released a recent advisory on ransomware activity that targets the healthcare and…
Server Breach Impacts Patients of Northwest Eye Surgeons and Sight Partners Northwest Eye Surgeons LLC and Sight Partners LLC began informing 20,838 patients regarding the…
The City of New Haven, Connecticut has made the decision to resolve its HIPAA violation case with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office…
MITRE Corporation created a new rubric for determining Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores of medical device vulnerabilities and it has passed the FDA’s scrutiny….
Comparitech security researcher Bob Diachenko has found an open group of databases that belong to the Voice over IP (VoIP) telecommunications merchant Broadvoice. The records…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint advisory about sophisticated advanced persistent threat groups sequencing…
Subsequent to a time period of dormancy between February 2020 and July 2020, the Emotet botnet jumped back again and began spam runs circulating the…
Universal Health Services (UHS) based in King of Prussia, PA has encountered a major security breach that led to the unavailability of its IT systems….
The U.S. Department of Justice issued an advisory that an associate of the well known hacking group, The Dark Overlord, obtained his sentence to 5…
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a security warning that hackers associated with China’s Ministry of State Security…
The National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM) is being celebrated this September 2020 for the second year. All through the month, resources will be offered…
An advisory issued by the American College Of Radiology, the Society For Imaging Informatics In Medicine, and the Radiological Society of North America highlight a…
IRONSCALES new research showed a substantial spike in credential theft utilizing spoofed websites. In the first half of 2020, the researchers discovered and reviewed bogus…
Beaumont Health, the leading healthcare system located in Michigan, began notifying 6,000 patients about the potential access of their protected health information (PHI) by unauthorized…
The House of Representatives voted to remove the restriction on the Department of Health and Human Services to use federal funds for creating a national…
A pharmacy chain reported that looters stole the protected health information (PHI) of some of its clients at the end of May at the time…
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has issued to Lifespan ACE, an affiliated covered entity of Lifespan Health System, a $1,040,000 HIPAA fine right after…
Lorien Health Services based in Ellicott City, MD, which manages 9 assisted living facilities throughout Maryland had encountered a ransomware attack on June 6, 2020….
A few vulnerabilities were discovered in the Apache Guacamole remote access system. Plenty of companies had been using Apache Guacamole to allow administrators and personnel…