It has been announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be easing the sanctioning of penalties in relation to specific data privacy breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Notice of Enforcement Discretion applies to breaches of the HIPAA...
156,400 People Have PHI Breached in Personal Touch Home Care Ransomware Attack
The Lake Success, NY-located home health company, Personal Touch Home Care (PTHC), has begun contacting clients to advise them that a ransomware attack on its Wyomissing, PA-based IT vendor, Crossroads Technologies Inc. may have resulted in a portion of their...
LabCorp Patients Personal & Health Data Exposed in Website Error
Experts at TechCrunch have discovered a security flaw in a website hosting an internal customer relationship management system used by the clinical laboratory network LabCorp. While the system was password protected, the experts discovered found a flaw in the part of...
HIPAA Violation Case Settled Between Ambulance Company & OCR for $65,000
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed a $65,000 HIPAA violation settlement has been agreed with West Georgia Ambulance, Inc., to address multiple breaches of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Rules....
130,000-Record Data Breach Results in Legal Action Against Kalispell Regional Healthcare
A legal action is being taken against Kalispell Regional Healthcare in Montana in relation to a phishing attack in which cybercriminals obtained access to employee email accounts including the protected health information of almost 130,000 clients. The impacted email...
Phishing Attacks Warning Issued to Patients of Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics and Delta Dental of Arizona
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics in Oregon suffered a phishing attack on July 31, 2019 that lead to an unauthorized person obtaining access to the email accounts of several employees. The breach was discovered within a day of the accounts being accessed and the...
Sarrell Dental Ransomware Attack IMpacts 391,472 Patients
Sarrell Dental, an Alabama-based not-for-profit Children’s dental and optical service clinic, has suffered a ransomware attack in which the protected health information of its patients may have been infiltrated. Sarrell Dental is the largest dental services clinic in...
NCH Healthcare System Phishing Attack Impacts 73 Email Accounts
A phishing attack on Bonita Springs, FL-based NCH Healthcare System was noticed on June 14, 2019 when suspicious email activity on its payroll database. The investigation indicated that 73 employees had replied to phishing emails and disclosed their account...
111,000 Patients Impacted in Imperial Health Ransomware Attack
A physicians’ network for patients based in Southwest Louisiana called Imperial Health is contacting over 111,000 patients to make them aware that a portion of their protected health information has potentially been illegally obtained as part of a ransomware attack....
25,000 Adirondack Health Patients Impacted by Email Account Hack
Adirondack Health is notifying almost 25,000 patients that a portion of their protected health information has potentially been obtained by a cyber criminal from the Vermont-based organization. The data may have included patients’ names, dates of birth, Medicare ID...
Union Labor Life Insurance Phishing Attack Leads to Exposure of PHI
The Ullico Inc. subsidiary, Union Labor Life Insurance (ULLI), is alerting more than 87,000 plan members that a portion of their protected health information (PHI) has been exposed due to a staff member responding to a phishing email. As is often the case in...
Forescout Study: Serious Holes in Healthcare Cybersecurity
Healthcare cybersecurity's poor state has been emphasised by a recent Forescout study. The study showed the healthcare sector is using legacy software, vulnerable protocols are extensively in use, and medical devices are not properly safeguarded. 75 global healthcare...
25,148 Patients Impacted in Ransomware Attack on the Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
A ransomware attack has resulted in widespread file encryption at the Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (SCADD) in Lebanon, CT. The attack was discovered on February 18, 2019 when problems started to be noticed with its network. The investigation...
14,305 Patients of Main Line Endoscopy Centers Affected by Phishing Attack
Main Line Endoscopy Centers, a group of outpatient endoscopy facilities based the Malvern, Bala Cynwyd, and Media regions of Pennsylvania, has notices an unauthorized person obtained access to the email account of one of its staff members following a response to a...
PHI of 326,000 Patients Exposed UConn Health Phishing Attack
UConn Health is making contact with almost 326,000 clients that some of their personal data was accessible due to a phishing attack on some of its staff members. UConn Health discovered the phishing breach on December 24, 2018. All email accounts were protected, and...
Community Health Systems Data Breach Settlement Agreed
Patients of Community Health Systems’ (CHS), who had their protected health information (PHI) illegally obtains in a hacking attack in 2014 have been offered compensation in relation to the violation of their private Private Health Information (PHI). Tennessee-based...
Business Associate Ransomware Attack Reported at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
A ransomware attack that has possibly resulted in the theft of plan subscriber’ protected health information has been reported by a business associate of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. This is the second recent data breach affecting Blue Cross Blue Shield of...
Thousands of Choice Rehabilitation Residents Affected by Email Account Breach
After an employee set up a mail forwarder to broadcast emails to a personal email account, Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, MO has discovered an unauthorized person illegally logged into a that corporate email account. The breach took place on July 1, 2018 and...
Phishing Attack Impacts 8,400 Patients of Orlando Family Physicians Group
A phishing attack has potentially been compromised the private personal data of 8,400 patients of the Humana-owned Family Physicians Group in Orlando who are are being notified as a result of the breach. Family Physicians Group is one of the biggest providers of...
Ransomware Attack Experienced by Vendor of Dental Center of Northwest Ohio
Notification are being sent to existing and former patients of the Dental Center of Northwest Ohio in Toledo to advise them that some of their protected health information may have been exposed due to a ransomware attack on one of its vendors. Managed IT service...
Importance of Security Awareness Training Emphasised by Censuswide Study on Phishing Threat
A new study by the consultancy firm Censuswide has revealed the extent to which employees are being tricked by phishing emails and how despite the danger of a data breaches and regulatory fines, many firms are not providing security awareness training to their staff....
Ransomware Attack Affects 16,000 Mind & Motion Patients
Following the installation of ransomware and malware on a server belonging to Mind & Motion Developmental Centers of Georgia, it has been revealed that the group responsible which may have been able to access to 16,000 patients protected health information. The...
Breach of Payment Information Impacts 48,000 Patients of Frisco Medical Center
Almost 48,000 patients and guarantors may had their the payment information compromised Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Frisco in a privacy breach which was noticed recently. The medical center, which is jointly operated by United Surgical Partners...
Email-Related Privacy Breach Impacts 6,450 Prairie Fields Family Medicine Patients
6,450 patients of Prairie Fields Family Medicine based in Fremont, NE are being made aware that their protected health information may have been compromised after it was included in an unencrypted spreadsheet that was sent to the incorrect email recipient. The email...
Phishing Attack Potentially Compromised PHI of 41,000 Cancer Centers of America Patients
Cancer Centers of America’s Western Regional Medical Center, located in Bullhead City, has revealed that a staff email account has been hacked following a phishing email attack. The phishing email seems to have been broadcast from the staff email account of a Cancer...
Atlanta Phishing Attack Exposes PHI of 7,000 Patients of Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics
Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta (GSOA) is contacting thousands of patients to make them aware that some of their protected health information has been made accessible, and possibly stolen, due to a phishing attack. An inquest into the data breach showed that...
Business Associate Data Breach Impacts 2.65 Million Atrium Health Patients
AccuDoc Solutions Inc., a supplier of healthcare billing services, has discovered a major data privacy breach in which the protected health information of 2,650,000 patients of Atrium Health was accessed by hackers. Morrisville, NC-based AccuDoc Solutions puts...
4,458 Patients have PHI Possibly Impacted by Stolen FHN Healthcare Laptop
FHN Healthcare, which runs FHN Memorial Hospital in Freeport, IL, and a group of family healthcare centers located in northwest Illinois, has discovered that a laptop computer storing the protected health information of 4,458 clients has been stolen from the car of a...
Key Dental Group Alerts Patients About Potential HIPAA Violation
Florida-based Key Dental Group has made contact with its patients about a suspected HIPAA breach which may have led to the unauthorized release of their protected health information (PHI). After amended its electronic medical record (EMR) database supplier, Key...
94,000 Individuals Personal Information Exposed in HealthCare.gov Data Breach
In October, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed that the HealthCare.gov online portal had been hacked and the sensitive data of around 75,000 individuals had possibly been obtained. This week, the CMS released an update on the privacy...
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