Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is confronted with legal action pertaining to two privacy breaches that involved staff accessing the medical records of patients without…
Daniel Bendetowicz, MD, PA is informing 3,314 patients about the exposure of their PHI because of a ransomware attack. The attack took place on March…
BJC Healthcare made an announcement about the unauthorized persons accessing the email accounts of three BJC employees after replying to the phishing emails in their…
UPMC Altoona found out about an unauthorized access to the email account of one doctor and the person possibly viewed or obtained the protected health…
FBI has released another notice subsequent to a rise in COVID-19 phishing scams aimed towards healthcare organizations. In the notification, the FBI points out that…
Doctors Community Medical Center in Maryland sent notification to some patients concerning a breach of their PHI. The discovery of the data breach in January…
Confido, a pharmacy benefits consulting company began mailing notification letters to 3,600 of its clients’ personnel, users, and their dependents concerning the probable access of…
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) found a medium severity vulnerability in the BD Pyxis MedStation medication dispensing system version 1.6.1 and in the anesthesia carts…
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it compulsory for lots of persons to self-isolate. Organizations are under rising pressure to permit their personnel to work from…
TigerConnect is a company in the U.S.A. offering the most popular secure healthcare communications platform. It announced that it is giving U.S. health systems and…
Proofpoint researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign directed at healthcare organizations, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical firms. The intercepted emails imitate Vanderbilt University Medical Center…
The University of Washington Medicine is facing a lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court with regards to a data breach that caused the exposure…
The new Vade Secure report unveiled the top 25 commonly impersonated brands in phishing attacks. The Phishers’ Favorite report for Q4 of 2019 stated that…
Peregrine Corporation, also known as PSL Services, found out about the unauthorized access to the email accounts of several employees from December 16 to December…
My Health My Resources (MHMR) of Tarrant County in Fort Worth, TX suffered a phishing attack that resulted in the compromise of some employees’ email…
The threat actors responsible for the Maze ransomware attacks are threatening their victims that they will post the information stolen during ransomware attacks if they…
The cybersecurity firm Proofpoint shared its 2020 State of the Phish report, which showed that 65% of American organizations (55% worldwide) experienced at least one…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued its Privacy Framework version 1.0 on January 16, 2020. The goal of the Privacy Framework is…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published an alert to warn private companies in the U.S. concerning Maze ransomware attacks. FBI gave the alert after…
Kalispell Regional Healthcare based in Montana is charged with another legal case on account of the May 2019 phishing attack that allowed cybercriminals to access…
Ransomware attacks are now more advanced. Cybercriminals are creating new approaches and strategies to access systems and deploy ransomware. The most common ways of accessing…
Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss), the Commerce Committee Chair, presented a draft copy of the United States Consumer Data Privacy Act of 2019 (CDAP). CDAP is…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, which is Minnesota’s biggest health insurance company, is presently trying to take care of approximately 200,000 unaddressed vulnerabilities detected…
Sunrise Community Health located in Evans, CO uncovered the exposure of a number of employees’ email accounts because of the employees’ response to phishing emails….
Loudoun Medical Group, also known as Comprehensive Sleep Care Center (CSCC), experienced a phishing attack approximately on June 19, 2019. The IT department was notified…
A ransomware attack on Great Plains Health based in North Platte, NE resulted in the encryption of some patients’ health records. Great Plains Health discovered…
Philips released information about a vulnerability found in Philips IntelliBridge EC40/80 hubs. An attacker could exploit to access vulnerable hubs and execute a software program,…
As per the Inflation Adjustment Act, the U.S Department of Health and Human Services took into account the inflation rate when issuing civil monetary penalties…
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) paid OCR $3 million as HIPAA penalty for failing to implement encryption on mobile gadgets and for other…
A series of phishing attacks have compromised the protected health information of 56,000 members of Presbyterian Health Plan. The phishing attacks did not directly target…
Little Rock Plastic Surgery (LRPS) is in the process of notifying patients of a data security incident which saw a former employee illegally access the…
Fedcap Rehabilitation is in the process of notifying 2,200 individuals of a data security incident which may have seen their confidential information compromised. New York-based…
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico and the states of Florida,…
Taxpayers and business have been warned of a new IRS phishing scam being used to spread keylogging malware. The hackers design the emails to appear…
Users of the Android app CamScanner have been advised to uninstall the app after a recent version was found to harbour malware. Security researchers at…
The Hospice of San Joaquin in Stockton, California, is in the process of notifying patients that their protected health information may have been compromised in…
Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Washington is notifying 88,399 patients that their confidential health information may have been compromised in a ransomware attack. The hospital…
The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a limited waiver of HIPAA sanctions and penalties in Louisiana following Tropical Storm Barry making…
Northwood Inc. is notifying individuals that their private information may have been comprised in a data breach following a phishing attack. Northwood Inc., based in…
A fake Office 365 phishing website is being used by hackers to distribute the Trickbot Trojan. The website is a convincing mimic of the legitimate…
Vitagene is in the process of investigating a data breach which has resulted in sensitive information of 3,000 customers from being exposed online. Vitagene, based…
Medical Center Enterprise, Alabama, has been ordered to pay a woman $300,000 in damages for violating her privacy rights. Amy Pertuit’s patient rights were violated…
A former nurse at Takai, Hoover & Hsu has is under investigation for impermissibly accessing of the protected health information (PHI) of 16,542 patients. The…
Microsoft has issued patches for 88 vulnerabilities this patch Tuesday. Of the vulnerabilities, 20 were rated critical. One servicing stack and 4 advisories were also…
A breach at the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) has compromised the records of nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients. AMCA, a billing collections company…
A sexual assault victim has filed a lawsuit against a Kansas hospital for disclosing her private health information to her attacker. The then proceeded to…
St. Vincent Medical Center is once again notifying patients of a data breach after experience a fourth phishing attack since December 2018. On March 26,…
The Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is notifying 25,000 patients that their PHI has been compromised in a ransomware attack. SCADD, based in…
Cybersecurity researchers have identified vulnerabilities in mail clients that could be exploited by hackers in digital signature spoofing attacks. Digital signatures are widely used to…
MD Anderson Cancer Centre has fired three scientists over allegations of espionage. The National Institutes of Health (NiH) contacted MD Anderson Cancer Centre, a world-leading…