May 16, 2019 Legal Action: Court Told Hospital Worker Shared Patient Information A legal action has been submitted against Atchison Hospital in Kansas by a rape victim who claims an x-ray technician at the hospital got in ... Read more
May 15, 2019 Microsoft Issues Patches for 79 Vulnerabilities Including Critical Wormable Flaw May 2019 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft release security updates to correct 79 vulnerabilities including one critical flaw that could potentially be exploited in a ... Read more
May 11, 2019 1,100 Spectrum Health Lakeland Patients Affected by Phishing Attack Spectrum Health Lakeland has revealed that a breach, the second the group has suffered in as many months, has exposed the protected health information (PHI) ... Read more
May 11, 2019 Extensive HIPAA Failures Lead to $3 Million Fine for Touchstone Medical Imaging The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed that a settlement has been agreed between with the Franklin, TN-based ... Read more
May 4, 2019 Court Rules that Negligence Claim Based on HIPAA Violation can Proceed in Arizona An Arizona man who submitted a legal action against Costco in relation to a privacy violation and had the lawsuit thrown out by the trial ... Read more
May 2, 2019 Business Associate Phishing Attack Impacts PHI of 17,531 Patients Women’s Health USA Inc., an Avon, CT-based business associate that supplies a range of practice management services to healthcare groups, has suffered a phishing attack ... Read more
May 2, 2019 DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Address Critical Vulnerabilities Within 15 Days The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a binding operational directive (BOD) which requires all federal agencies to correct critical vulnerabilities in Internet-accessible systems ... Read more
April 20, 2019 Cybercriminals Turn to PDF Files to Deliver Malicious Payloads Q1, 2019 saw a marked increase in the use of PDF files to deliver malware, according to the Q1 2019 Cyber Threat Report from SonicWall. ... Read more
April 18, 2019 297 Flaws Patched by Oracle in its April Security Update Oracle’s April security update includes patches for 297 vulnerabilities across its product suite. Users of Oracle products have been advised to update the products as ... Read more
April 9, 2019 Verizon Pushing Firmware Upgrade that Addresses Serious Router Command Injection Flaw Millions of Verizon routers are affected by a command injection flaw that could allow an attacker to gain full control of the device. The flaw ... Read more
March 27, 2019 Apple Patches 51 Serious Security Flaws in iOS 12.2 Update Apple has released a new update of its iOS operating system for iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and 6th gen iPods. An ... Read more
March 22, 2019 Microsoft Will End Support for Windows 7 in January 2020 Microsoft has announced that support for Windows 7 will come to an end on January 14, 2020. All Windows 7 users will be advised to ... Read more
March 16, 2019 Sharecare Health Data Services Issues Alert 8 Months After Breach Discovery Sharecare Health Data Services (SHDS), a San Diego firm that provides secure electronic exchange and medical records management services for healthcare groups, has contacted some ... Read more
March 14, 2019 Healthcare Employees Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks The healthcare industry appears to have more than its fair share of phishing attacks. Barely a week goes by without a major phishing attack being ... Read more
March 11, 2019 Jackson County, Georgia Pays $400,000 Ransom to Recover Encrypted Files After considering the potential costs and benefits, Jackson County, Georgia determined that paying the ransom demand to unlock files encrypted in ransomware attack was the ... Read more
March 6, 2019 16,440 Patients Affect by Breach at Kentucky Counseling Center Kentucky Counseling Center (KCC) has uncovered a list of 16,440 clients has been illegally taken and shared with another person. A current member of staff ... Read more
March 5, 2019 Milestone Family Medicine Data Breach Made Known to St. Francis Patients Bon Secours St. Francis Health System is getting in touch with patients in relation to a security breach that may have led to some of ... Read more
March 5, 2019 PHI Incident at Rush University Medical Center Impacts up to 45,000 Patients Rush University Medical Center is contacting around 45,000 patients to advise them that their PHI has been exposed due to a data incident at a ... Read more
February 25, 2019 UConn Health Phishing Attack Impacts 326K Patients A UConn Health phishing attack in December has potentially allowed an unauthorized individual to gain access to the health information of hundreds of thousands of ... Read more
February 22, 2019 Zero-Day WinRAR Remote Code Execution Flaw Allows Full PC Takeover A patch has been released to correct a 19-year old zero-day WinRAR remote code execution vulnerability. The flaw was identified by security researchers at Check ... Read more
February 14, 2019 Pawnee County Memorial Hospital Malware Attack Impacts 7,000 Patients Pawnee County Memorial Hospital in Pawnee City, Nebraska, is contacting 7,038 clients that some of their protected health information has possibly been accessed by a ... Read more
February 14, 2019 Georgia Eye Associates Email Breach Impacts 24,000 Patients EyeSouth Partners has revealed that a cyber criminal has obtained access to a staff member’s email account and may have viewed/obtained the electronic protected health ... Read more
February 13, 2019 Proposal to Pay Patients to Share Their Healthcare Data Included in Oregon Health Information Property Act The Oregon Health Information Property Act proposes that healthcare patients should be permitted to legally authorize their healthcare suppliers to sell their health data and ... Read more
February 7, 2019 $3m HIPAA Settlement Agreed Between Cottage Health and OCR A HIPAA penalty settlement of $3,000,000 has been agreed between the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCRand the Santa Barbara, ... Read more
February 6, 2019 Roper St. Francis Healthcare Phishing Attack Sees 13 Accounts Compromised A massive phishing campaign targeting Roper St. Francis Healthcare has seen attackers gain access to the email accounts of 13 staff members. The phishing attack ... Read more
February 1, 2019 6,092 Patients of FABEN Obstetrics and Gynecology Alerted about Ransomware Attack FABEN Obstetrics and Gynecology has been hit by a ransomware hacking attack on a server that stored patients’ protected health information (PHI). The ransomware was ... Read more
January 25, 2019 Warning About DNS Hijacking Issued by DHS The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has released an emergency warning regarding DNS hijacking campaigns. All government agencies have been told ... Read more
January 23, 2019 Email Account Breach Impacts Valley Hope Association Patients Valley Hope Association has revealed that a hacker has been able to log onto the email account of a member of staff. The organisation discovered ... Read more
January 23, 2019 0Patch Micropatches Released to Address 3 Zero-Day Windows Flaws 0Patch has released a micropatch to address three zero-day Windows flaws that have yet to be addressed by Microsoft, including a zero-day remote code execution ... Read more
January 20, 2019 Criminal HIPAA Violation Leads to Probation for Physician Following pleading guilty to a criminal violation of HIPAA Rules, a physician has received 6 months’ probation as an alternative to a jail term and ... Read more