September 10, 2019 Two Thirds of UK Employees Do Not Receive Regular Email Security Training A recent study by cybersecurity firm Tessian suggests two thirds of UK employees do not receive regular email security training in the workplace. Consequently, UK ... Read more
September 10, 2019 UC Health Phishing Attack Affects Multiple Email Accounts University of Cincinnati Health (UC Health) is looking into a security breach that saw the email accounts of multiple employees accessed by an unauthorized person ... Read more
September 8, 2019 13,905 Patients Targeted in Artesia General Hospital Phishing Attack Artesia General Hospital, located in Artesia New Mexico, has stated that protected health information (PHI) of 13,905 patients has been illegally accessed in a planned ... Read more
August 27, 2019 PHI of 183,000 Patients Exposed in Phishing Attack on Presbyterian Healthcare Services The Albuquerque, NM-based not-for-profit health organization Presbyterian Healthcare Services, has suffered a phishing attack that resulted in the email accounts of several workers subjected to ... Read more
August 25, 2019 HIPAA Compliance & iCloud We look at HIPAA compliance and iCloud because, as more and more businesses take advantage of cloud computing, an important question for Covered Entities to ... Read more
August 24, 2019 3,000 Records Potentially Compromised in Rhode Island Healthcare Attack Rhode Island Ear, Nose and Throat Physicians Inc. (RIENT) is contacting 2,943 patients to make them aware that some of their health information was saved ... Read more
August 24, 2019 10,000 Patients Have Personal Data Impacted in Massachusetts General Hospital Breach Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has identified that computer applications used by security experts in its Department of Neurology have been infiltrated using unauthorized access. The ... Read more
August 22, 2019 Researchers Provide Insights into Motivations Behind Healthcare Cyberattacks A new report from FireEye provides insights into the motivations behind cyberattacks on U.S. healthcare organizations. The report shows patient information is not the only ... Read more
August 22, 2019 Data Breach Exposes Medical Records of Western Connecticut Health Network Patients Nuvance Health has started getting in touch with certain Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) patients to make them aware that some of their protected health ... Read more
August 12, 2019 Lost Thumb Drive was used to Store PHI of Renown Health Patients Renown Health, the largest healthcare supplier in Northern Nevada, has started getting in touch with certain patients to make them aware that some of their ... Read more
August 7, 2019 2019: A Particularly Bad Year for Healthcare Data Breaches Cyberattacks on healthcare organizations have continued to increase throughout the first half of 2019 and this year has seen the discovery of the second largest ... Read more
August 4, 2019 Emergency Notifications Systems & Business HIPAA-Compliance Emergency notification systems for business are software services that are often implemented to alert personnel to the risk of danger. Situation that they are used ... Read more
July 30, 2019 2 Billion Devices Vulnerable to Critical ‘Urgent/11’ VxWorks RCE Flaws Researchers at cybersecurity firm Armis have identified 11 zero-day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, the most popular real time operating system (RTOS). The vulnerabilities are collectively known ... Read more
July 24, 2019 AMCA Breach Impacts 2.2 Million Patients of Clinical Pathology Laboratories It has recently been discovered that the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 2.2 million of patients of Clinical Pathology Laboratories in Texas may have ... Read more
July 21, 2019 25,000 Adirondack Health Patients Hit by Email Account Hack Vermont-based Adirondack Health is getting in touch with around 25,000 patients that some of their protected health information has potentially been obtained by a cyber ... Read more
July 18, 2019 $301 Million Lost to BEC Scams Every Month The number of successful Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams has increased significantly over the past two years, according to a new financial trend analysis report ... Read more
July 16, 2019 14,591 DHS Patients have PHI Compromised in Phishing Attack on California Business Associate Nemadji Research Corporation, an outfit working with California Reimbursement Enterprises, has revealed that an unauthorized person obtained access to the email account of a staff ... Read more
July 16, 2019 Amazon CloudFront & HIPAA Compliance Amazon CloudFront is a web service that enables users to optimize the speed of their web content delivery via the Internet and for website hosting. ... Read more
July 11, 2019 One-Year Prison Sentence for TermPatient Care Coordinator Following HIPAA Violation A former patient care coordinator based at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has been given a one-year prisons sentence for accessing the medical records ... Read more
July 10, 2019 City of Griffin Wires $800,000 to BEC Scammers A business email compromise attack on the city of Griffin, GA, has resulted in two payments totaling $800,000 being made to accounts controlled by the ... Read more
July 8, 2019 HIPAA Compliance & IBM Cloud IBM provides a cloud platform to help groups create their mobile and web services, build native cloud apps, and host their infrastructure along with a ... Read more
July 8, 2019 Unauthorized Use of PHI as Teaching Tool Leads to Legal Action by Student A medical student at Marshall University is suing the institution, along with Cabell Huntington Hospital, in relation to the unauthorized sharing of some of his ... Read more
July 7, 2019 Phishing Attack Impacts PHI of 10,893 Summa Health Patients It was discovered on on May 1 that up to four employee email accounts containing patients’ protected health information (PHI) have been infiltrated at Akron, ... Read more
June 26, 2019 Millions of Computers Vulnerable to Dell SupportAssist Flaw A vulnerability has been identified in Dell SupportAssist software that is pre-installed on millions of Dell PCs and laptops. The privilege escalation flaw could be ... Read more
June 21, 2019 Two Maryland Healthcare Providers Affected by Potential Breach at Meditab Software In Maryland two healthcare providers have been impacted by a possible data breach that took place at their business associate, Meditab Software Inc.Meditab supplies EMR ... Read more
June 16, 2019 General Catalyst Enters into €70 Million Finance Agreement with Vade Secure Vade Secure has announced it has secured €70 million in funding from General Catalyst. The money will be invested in machine learning technology for its ... Read more
June 6, 2019 AMCA Breach Affects Almost 7.7 Million Patients After reports that the data breach at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) impacted the records of 11.9 million Quest Diagnostics patients, comes revelation that another ... Read more
June 4, 2019 Sensitive Information of 11.9 Million Quest Diagnostics Patients Compromised Quest Diagnostics, one of the leading medical laboratories and blood testing companies in the United States, has been affected by a data breach at one ... Read more
May 21, 2019 Healthcare Data Breach Report for April 2019 April 2019 was the worst month recorded, to date, for healthcare data breaches. More data breaches were made known to the Department of Health and ... Read more
May 20, 2019 Verity Health’s St. Vincent Medical Center Reports Phishing Attack St. Vincent Medical Center, a part of Verity Health System, has announced a staff email account has been hacked following a response to a phishing ... Read more