March 28, 2018 35,000 Patients of ATI Physical Therapy Affect by Data Breach The protected health information of more than 35,000 patients of ATI Physical Therapy has has potentially been compromised by a cyber attack that occurred when ... Read more
March 28, 2018 SonicWall Launches New MSSP Partner Program The San Jose, CA-based cybersecurity firm SonicWall has launched a new partner program for Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs). The SecureFirst MSSP Program helps partners ... Read more
March 26, 2018 Finger Lakes Health Computer System Grinds to Halt After Ransomware Attack A ransomware attack on Finger Lakes Health, based in Geneva, NY, has impacted the computer system to the extent that staff have had to work using ... Read more
March 20, 2018 1,049 Patients of RoxSan Pharmacy Notified of 2015 Email Breach 1,049 patients of Beverly Hills, CA-based RoxSan Pharmacy have been warned that some of their protected health information has been shared with a business associate ... Read more
March 20, 2018 Primary Health Care Experiences Multiple Email Hacks A non-profit network of community health centers in Des Moines, Marshalltown and Ames, IA, Primary Health Care Inc. has reported that hackers gained access to ... Read more
March 20, 2018 77% of Businesses Expect to Be Victims of Email Fraud in 2018 A new report from Proofpoint has revealed 82% of boards are concerned about email fraud with six out of 10 businesses considering email fraud to ... Read more
March 16, 2018 33,420 BJC Healthcare Patients Have PHI Exposed in 8-Months HIPAA Breach BJC Healthcare has revealed that the protected health information of 33,420 of it’s subscribers has been open to public accessible for eight months without adequate for ... Read more
March 8, 2018 NY Attorney General Fines EmblemHealth €575,000 for HIPAA Breach A mailing mistake by EmblemHealth in 2016 that resulted in the Health Insurance Claim Numbers of 81,122 plan subscribers printed on the exterior of envelopes ... Read more
March 7, 2018 Future of Cybersecurity Scholarship Program Launched by PhishLabs PhishLabs, a leading provider of security awareness training and anti-phishing solutions for enterprises, has announced the launch of a new ‘Future of Cybersecurity’ Scholarship Program. ... Read more
March 6, 2018 New York Surgery & Endoscopy Suffers Record Data Breach Affected 135,000 Patients A malware infection has potentially allowed hackers to gain access to the medical records of as many as 135,000 patients at St. Peter’s Surgery & ... Read more
March 6, 2018 70,320 Tufts Health Plan Members Affected by Window Envelope Privacy Breach Tufts Health Plan is warning 70,320 of its subscribers that their health plan ID numbers have been accessed. A mailing vendor/partner utilized by Tufts Health ... Read more
February 28, 2018 Updated Common Rule Allows Research Institutions Another Six Months for Compliance Initially scheduled due to be introduced on January 19, 2018, amendments to the Common Rule – The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects have ... Read more
February 26, 2018 Phishing Attack on Sutter Health Business Associate Impacts Patients Sutter Health is contacting certain patients to advise them that their protected health information may have been exposed in a phishing attack on the legal ... Read more
February 25, 2018 AppRiver Named Winner of 2018 Silver Stevie Award for Customer Service Each year, more than 10,000 organizations compete for Stevie Awards across seven programs, with companies and individuals from more than 60 nations vying for a ... Read more
February 22, 2018 HIPAA Compliance and Citrix ShareFile ShareFile was purchased by Citrix Systems during 2011 and the service is offered as a suitable data sync, file sharing, and collaboration service for the ... Read more
February 20, 2018 HIPAA Compliance and Amazon CloudFront Amazon CloudFront is a web tool that permits users to quicken web content delivery across the Internet. In most case, when a website is visited, ... Read more
February 16, 2018 HIPAA $100,000 Fine Applied After Illinois Business Closes HIPAA covered organization and their business associates must continue to adhere to Rules even when they close down. The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) ... Read more
February 14, 2018 Decatur County General Hospital Malware Attack Exposes 24,000 Patient Records It has been has that Decatur County General Hospital in Tennessee suffered a malware attack after a virus was uploaded to a server housing its ... Read more
February 13, 2018 Ron’s Pharmacy Services’ Patients Receive Email Account Breach Alerts San Diego, CA-based Ron’s Pharmacy Services has found that an employee’s email account containing limited protected health information has been logged onto by an unknown ... Read more
February 12, 2018 Western Washington Medical Group Patients Impacted by HIPAA Breach 842 patients of Western Washington Medical Group have had their protected health information exposed when files including sensitive health information were disposed of with regular trash ... Read more
February 12, 2018 UK Government Websites Mining Cryptocurrency UK government websites mining cryptocurrency after third party website plugin compromised by hackers. The plugin Browsealoud, used on many government websites to help hearing-impaired and ... Read more
February 9, 2018 May 2017 Partners HealthCare Breach May Have Affected 2,600 Clients 2,600 clients of Partners HealthCare System are being warned that some of their protected health information may have been compromised in a May 2017 breach. ... Read more
February 8, 2018 TitanHQ Joins HTG Peer Groups as Gold Vendor Irish anti-spam, web filtering, and email archiving solution provider TitanHQ has announced that 2018 will see the company become a Gold Vendor member of HTG ... Read more
February 7, 2018 CarePlus Health Warns 11,200 Subscribers of PHI Breach A privacy incident has been suffered by Miami, FL-based CarePlus Health Plans where certain plan subscribers’ protected health information were mistakenly shared with other plan ... Read more
February 5, 2018 Forrest General Hospital Phishing Attack Exposes Patients’ PHI The PHI has of patients of Forrest Health’s Forrest General Hospital has potentially been obtained by a third party after access was gained to the ... Read more
January 25, 2018 53,000 Pharmacy Patients Have PHI Exposed in Email Hack Patients of Onco360 and CareMed Specialty Pharmacy have been notified that the PHI of 53,173 patients has been compromised due to a phishing attack. A security ... Read more
January 19, 2018 Hancock Health Hit by Ransomware Attack Following a ransomware attack on Indiana-based organization Hancock Health last Thursday, staff at the hospital had no choice but to move to using pen and ... Read more
January 17, 2018 Coplin Health Systems Patients’ PHI Possibly Compromised by Laptop Theft 43,000 patients of West Virginia-based Coplin Health Systems have been warned that their PHI may have been exposed following the theft of an unencrypted laptop ... Read more
January 15, 2018 Unencrypted Hard Drive Results in the PHI of 9387 Patients’ Being Exposed In late November, the Framingham, MA-based Charles River Medical Associates based practice discovered one of its external hard drives was missing from its usual location. ... Read more
January 13, 2018 PHI Breach at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences An unauthorized individual has gained access to parts of the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSUCHS) network and may have accessed files containing ... Read more