Standard Modern Company, a third-party vendor that works with MassHealth, announced a recent data breach that is impacting some protected health information (PHI) of...
The Cancer Center of Greenwood Leflore Hospital is reporting that some of its patients’ protected health information (PHI) is part of the larger Elekta data...
Jefferson Health, which has locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, is notifying patients of a health data breach that exposed patients’ protected...
Japanese company Hoya Optical Labs recently notified its US customers of an April 5th healthcare ransomware attack that may have exposed personally identifiable information (PII) including Social...
St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C), a large hospital system in Savannah, Georgia, suffered a ransomware attack on June 17th, according to a report by local news station WSAV. The attack led to EHR...
Ransomware attacks can be both costly and dangerous for those impacted. But for the healthcare industry in particular, patient data is put at risk and taking EHR systems offline can delay critical...
The Cancer Centers of Southwest Oklahoma announced that it was part of a cancer software data breach through its business associate, Elekta, that may have leaked sensitive patient information. The...
In recent weeks, a number of HIPAA-required notifications from covered entities and business associates have reported patient data breaches that occurred in 2020: Beacon Health...
Improper access controls have left the data of more than 150,000 to 200,000 patients, and likely more, exposed online in at least nine GitHub repositories, shining a light on the need for...
Data breaches are the most expensive in healthcare when compared to all global industries with costs topping $7.13 million annually, compared to $3.86 million across all sectors,...
Grays Harbor Community Hospital and Harbor Medical Group has reached a proposed $185,000 settlement with the 88,000 patients impacted by a June 2019 ransomware attack, which drove...
Ontario and British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioners have concluded LifeLabs failed to protect the personal health information of the 15 million patients impacted by its...
Iowa Health System, doing business as UnityPoint Health, has reached a proposed $2.8 million settlement with the millions of patients impacted by two phishing-related data breaches in 2017 and...
The number of confirmed data breaches in the healthcare sector substantially increased last year, as external threats exceeded the number of insider-related incidents for one of the first times,...
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking comment from industry stakeholders on breach notification requirements for entities that collect personally identifiable health information but aren’t...
The notorious Maze ransomware hacking group has failed to follow through with their assurance the healthcare sector would be off-limits during the COVID-19 pandemic, by publishing data stolen from two...
LabCorp shareholder Raymond Eugenio recently filed suit against the lab testing giant, as well as its 12 directors and executives, to recoup share value losses caused by two data breaches, first...
A Federal judge of the US District Court of Arizona has given final approval for the class-action lawsuit against Banner Health, stemming from its June 2016 data breach that impacted more than 3.7...
The University of Kentucky (UK) and UK Healthcare have been working to remove cryptocurrency malware from its network after a February cyberattack. The malware caused significant network issues and...
Last week, NRC Health became the latest vendor to report it fell victim to a ransomware attack, which locked the company out of its computer systems as it worked to recover. Given its massive list of...