Behind the transportation and automotive industries, healthcare employees were the most likely to read and reply to malicious emails, falling victim to business email compromise (BEC) attacks, Abnormal...
GoodRx, along with Meta, Google, and online advertising company Criteo, were hit with a proposed class action lawsuit containing allegations of improper health data sharing practices.
GoodRx...
Duo, Imprivata, and Medigate by Claroty, were among the variety of vendors that achieved “Best in KLAS” status in the newly released 2023 Best in KLAS: Software & Services...
While the number of total third-party breaches slightly dipped in 2022, the attacks impacted nearly twice as many victims, wreaking havoc on the healthcare industry more than any other sector, Black...
Healthcare data breaches did not slow down in 2022, impacting more than 590 organizations and upwards of 48 million individuals.
In fact, healthcare data breaches accounted for 22 percent of the...
Healthcare data breach notifications have not slowed down in the new year, and organizations of all sizes continue to suffer from security incidents.
For example, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare in...
The recent rise in third-party data breaches warrants a reevaluation of third- and fourth-party vendor relationships, new data from SecurityScorecard and the Cyentia Institute suggested. As previously...
UPDATE 2/6/2023 - This article has been updated to reflect recent developments.
Florida-based Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) is actively responding to “an IT security issue that began...
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled with Banner Health following a HIPAA Security Rule investigation stemming from a 2016 data breach. Banner Health agreed to pay $1.25 million to OCR and...
Atlantic General Hospital in Maryland is recovering from a ransomware attack that was discovered early this week, local news outlet WMDT47 first reported. The hospital experienced network outages and...
Since releasing his policy options paper in November, Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) has been collecting feedback from industry experts on healthcare cybersecurity challenges and how to tackle them through policy and legislation.
As...
A hacktivist group known as KillNet is actively targeting the US healthcare sector with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned in...
Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell, Montana reached a $4.3 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit stemming from a Fall 2021 healthcare data breach. Class members may be...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has successfully disrupted Hive ransomware group operations following a months-long effort. According to the DOJ press release, Hive has targeted more than 1,500...
UPDATE 1/27/2023 - This article has been updated to include a commment from ConnectWise.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Multi-State...
Ransomware remained a primary healthcare cyberattack tactic in Q4 2022, BlackBerry noted in its new Global Threat Intelligence Report. BlackBerry's Threat Research and Intelligence team leveraged...
BayCare Clinic began notifying 134,000 patients of a data breach that potentially exposed protected health information (PHI) stemming from tracking pixels.
The specialty care clinic explained that the...
One Brooklyn Health (OBH) confirmed that its systems were subject to unauthorized access beginning in July 2022. In December, local news outlets began reporting outages and delays at One Brooklyn, a...
When Ed Bujold, MD, FAAFP, of Granite Falls Family Medical Care Center in North Carolina, found out in October 2021 that his practice had been impacted by a ransomware attack waged against its cloud vendor, he realized that he had three...
Nearly 80 percent of healthcare data breaches reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in 2022 were attributed to hacking and IT incidents, Fortified Health Security noted in its “2023...
