A recent report carried out by the Ponemon Institute has emphasized current endpoint security trends, details the ever-present threat from ransomware, and shows that fileless malware cyberattacks are increasing. Annually, endpoint attacks cost the healthcare sector...
It has been discovered that an unencrypted laptop has been stolen from one of the employees of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services of Colorado Springs . This is the second such theft incident to be found in the space of just three months. This incident was first...
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has pleaded with the HHS to move forward on all recommendations for medical device security proposed by the Healthcare Cybersecurity Task Force, seeking quick action to be taken to address existing dangers. The Cybersecurity...
An unencrypted laptop has been stolen from one of its employees in a theft, the second such incident to be discovered in the space of three months, at Rocky Mountain Health Care Services of Colorado Springs. The latest breach was identified on September 28. The stolen...
A phishing attack at the Medical College of Wisconsin has lead to the exposure of approximately 9,500 patients’ protected health information. The hackers gained access to the email accounts of staff member, which included a range of private information regarding...
The November 2017 healthcare Breach Barometer Report has been published by Protenus. Following an unusually particularly bad September, healthcare data breach incidents fell to more normal levels, with 37 breaches recorded during the month of October. The monthly...
UPMC Susquehanna, a network of hospitals and health facilities in Williamsport, Wellsboro, and Muncy in Pennsylvania, has revealed that the protected health information of 1,200 patients has possibly been accessed by unauthorized people. Access to patient data is...
Personally identifiable information of a limited number of insurance applicants has been exposed online, according to an announcement by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, dba Florida Blue. Florida Blue was made aware of the exposure of patient data in late August...
After a burglary at an off-site storage center in East Brunswick, NJ, Otolaryngology Associates of Central Jersey is making patients aware a breach of their protected health information. The thieves removed 13 boxes of paper medical records from the center, which...
Amazon has revealed that new security measures have been added to its cloud server that will make it much more difficult for users to misconfigure their S3 buckets and mistakenly leave their data accessible. While Amazon will complete a business associate agreement...
Patients of Cook County Health and Hospitals System, a health system comprising two hospitals and more than a dozen community health centers in Cook County Illinois, have been made aware of a breach of their protected health information. The breach happened at...
There was been a 305% increase in the number of records exposed in data breaches in the 2017 according to a data breach report from Risk Based Security (RBS), a provider of real time information and risk analysis tools. For its most recent breach report, RBS analyzed...
In August 2017 malware was discovered to have been installed on one of the computer servers used by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany (CCDA) in its Glens Falls office, which served patients in Saratoga, Warren and Washington Counties in New York. It was...
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has introduced the ‘Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act)’ into the legislature in New York.it is hoped that Act will protect New Yorkers from unnecessary breaches of their personal data and...
Two USB drives storing the protected health information of up to 2,000 veterans have been stolen from the Man-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA it has been reported. The two USB devices were being used to store protected data from a standalone, non-networked...
It has recently been discovered that a former employee of the Texas Children’s Health Plan has recieved the protected health information (PHI) of 932 members in a private email. The last known incident where the former employee emailed the data was late in 2016,...
A new WannaCry ransomware variant has been used to attack FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a Pinehurst, SC-based not for profit health network. WannaCry ransomware was used in worldwide attacks earlier in May. Over 230,000 computers were infected within 24 hours of the...
The protected health information (PHI) of almost 8,000 client of Brevard Physician Associates may have been accessed following the theft of an office computer in a recent break in. The burglary happened on September 4, 2017 – Labor Day – when the offices were shut...
A HIPAA Breach has been reported at lawnmower engine manufacturer Briggs Stratton which may have affected 12,789 of its employees and potentially resulted in the exposure of names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers, health...
