January 11, 2018 Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Hit by Phishing Attack An unauthorized individual has gained access to a single email account of a staff member at the Agency for Health Care Administration in Florida using ... Read more
January 8, 2018 Half of Users Click Links Sent by Unknown Senders A new report from Komodo security suggests that until at least 2020, phishing will remain the most commonly used tactic of conducting advanced attacks on ... Read more
January 6, 2018 Bronson Healthcare Group Phishing Attack Impacts 8,256 Patients A recent Bronson Healthcare Group phishing attack has resulted in a hacker gaining access to the protected health information (PHI) of 8,256 patients. The attack ... Read more
January 5, 2018 Employee-Related Data Breach at SSM Health Affects 29,000 It has been discovered that a former worker at the St. Louis, MO-based not-for-profit health system, SSM Health was accessing the health records of clients for ... Read more
January 3, 2018 24,000 Patients Impacted by Emory Healthcare Data Breach It has been discovered that a former worker at Emory Healthcare (EHC) has obtained the protected health information of 24,000 EHC patients and uploaded the ... Read more
January 3, 2018 PhishLine Bought by Barracuda Networks The phishing simulation and security awareness training company PhishLine has been bought by Barracuda Networks. Barracuda Networks is expanding its phishing defense solutions and is ... Read more
January 2, 2018 Cyberattack Affects Internal Access to Jones Memorial Hospital Servers University of Rochester Medicine’s Jones Memorial Hospital, located in Wellsville, New York is currently dealing with a cyberattack that has inflicted some unexpected downtime on ... Read more
December 27, 2017 Nebraska Ransomware Attacks Compromised PHI of Almost 10,000 Patients A ransomware attack that targeted Columbus Surgery Center, LLC and Eye Physicians, P.C., in Columbus, Nebraska has potentially exposedin the protected health information of almost ... Read more
December 21, 2017 1,750 Patients Affected by Potential Data Theft Incident at Austin Manual Therapy 1,750 patients have been notified that some of their protected health information may have been accessed and stolen by a criminal attacker who gained access ... Read more
December 21, 2017 1,900 MidMichigan Medical Center Patients’ PHI Found After Breach MidMichigan Medical Center (MMC) in Alpena has made contact with patients to advise them of a possible breach of their health information, which may have ... Read more
December 20, 2017 Cyberattacks on Hospitals on the Rise: 78% of Providers Attacked in 2017 There has been an increase in cyberattacks on hospitals in 2017, according to a recent Mimecast survey. The survey was conducted on 76 healthcare IT ... Read more
December 19, 2017 PHI of Almost 7,000 Patients Exposed in Two Separate Breaches A binder holding a log of presurgical insurance authorizations was accidentally recycled by a cleaning company contracted by NYU Langone Health System in October. The ... Read more
December 18, 2017 5,000 Patients’ PHI Exposed in Two Separate Breaches Separate breaches of patients’ protected health information have been exposed at Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, TX, and Washington Health System Greene in Waynesburg, PA. The ... Read more
December 17, 2017 UNC Health Care Breach Potentially Impacts 24,000 Patients A computer device belonging to UNC Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, NC, has been stolen in a burglary, possibly exposing the protected ... Read more
December 14, 2017 18,500 Patients’ PHI Exposed After Multiple Email Accounts Were Compromised The Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System has issued notifications to almost 18,500 patients that some of their PHI has potentially been seen by an unauthorized ... Read more
December 13, 2017 Mimecast Survey Reveals Healthcare Providers See Email as a Major Attack Vector A recent Mimecast-sponsored survey conducted by HIMSS Analytics has shown that healthcare providers believe email to be a main attack vector used by cybercriminals to ... Read more
December 12, 2017 Healthcare Worker Stole PHI of 28,000 Health Care Services Patients Private documents holding the PHI of patients have been stolen by a former employee of the Center for Health Care Services (CHCS) in San Antonio, ... Read more
December 4, 2017 Multiple Breaches Lead to $2m Fine for Cottage Health Cottage Health, the Santa Barbara-based healthcare provider, will pay $2 million to resolve multiple violations of state and federal laws as per a directive from ... Read more
November 30, 2017 Rocky Mountain Health Care Services has Second Unencrypted Laptop Stolen An unencrypted laptop has been stolen from one of its employees of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services of Colorado Springs. This is the second such ... Read more
November 29, 2017 Medical College of Wisconsin Phishing Attack Affects 9,500 Patients The exposure of approximately 9,500 patients’ protected health information at the Medical College of Wisconsin has been caused by a phishing attack. The attackers were ... Read more
November 23, 2017 Suspected UPMC Susquehanna Phishing Attack Exposes 1,200 Patients’ PHI A network of hospitals and medical centers in Williamsport, Wellsboro and Muncy in Pennsylvania, called UPMC Susquehannam has revealed that the protected health information of ... Read more
November 16, 2017 Wombat Security Technologies Ranks #135 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List Deloitte has released its latest Technology Fast 500 List – A list of the fastest growing companies in the technology, life sciences, and telecommunications sectors ... Read more
November 16, 2017 Alex Azar Nominated for HHS Secretary by President Trump Alex Azar, the former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is now the favorite to take over the reins from former ... Read more
November 15, 2017 Cook County Health Patients Affected by Data Breach Illinois-based Cook County Health and Hospitals System, a health system comprising two hospitals and more than a dozen community health centers in Cook County, has ... Read more
November 13, 2017 Cloud Vendors to Watch in 2018 Businesses in all industry verticals are now taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the cloud, whether for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS. The cloud allows ... Read more
November 9, 2017 Ransomware Attack Affects 8,750 Patients According to Aging Agency East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging (ECKAAA), an Ottawa-based body, has reported that a ransomware attack has resulted in the encryption of files on ... Read more
November 7, 2017 Breach of PHI at Texas Children’s Health Plan After Staff Member Sent Emails to Personal Account A breach of HIPPA has occurred at the Texas Children’s Health Plan after it has been found that the protected health information (PHI) of 932 ... Read more
November 3, 2017 New Variant of WannaCry Ransomware Detected in FirstHealth CyberAttack A new variant of the WannaCry ransomware has been detected in a cyber attack on FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a Pinehurst, SC-based not for profit ... Read more
November 2, 2017 PHI of 8,000 Patients Possibly Breached in Office Break In An office break in and subsequent computer theft has lead to the possible exposing of the protected health information (PHI) of up to 8,000 clients ... Read more
October 31, 2017 Dental Offices and HIPAA Compliance: What Needs to Be Addressed? Dr. Joseph Beck became the first ever dentist to be receive a HIPAA violation fine in 2014. This alerted dental offices to HIPAA compliance and the ... Read more