The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled a HIPAA investigation involving iHealth Solutions (also known as Advantum Health), a healthcare business associate that provides coding, billing, and IT...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center’s (HC3) latest analyst note details the threat of search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning, which is increasingly being used against the...
San Jose, California-based Good Samaritan Hospital has reached an undisclosed settlement, which includes a nearly $460,000 commitment to cybersecurity upgrades, to resolve a class-action lawsuit...
Senators Peter Welch (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy expressing concern over the privacy practices of Amazon Clinic, the...
Digital health company Kannact disclosed a breach to HHS that impacted 103,547 individuals. According to a breach notice posted on the company’s website, Kannact discovered that an unauthorized...
Pennsylvania-based Onix Group, a healthcare business associate that operates commercial real estate and provides management and consulting services, is now facing a lawsuit over a March 2023 data...
With cyberattacks on the rise, trust in teams and technology is crucial. However, 42 percent of security leaders see a trust deficit as their biggest hurdle, a new survey showed.
The 2023 'State...
Cyber resilience is crucial to business continuity amid a cyber incident, as it ensures that systems can recover quickly. As such, it is no surprise that cyber resilience would be top-of-mind for...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a proposed settlement with 1Health.io, a genetic testing company, over its alleged security and privacy failures. The order requires the company to pay...
The Biden Administration recently proposed amendments to HIPAA that aim to protect patients and providers from prosecution in relation to the provision of reproductive healthcare. In response to the...
HHS called attention to a resurfaced ransomware variant called TimisoaraHackerTeam (THT), which recently claimed responsibility for a June 2023 cyberattack on a United States cancer center. The...
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a Russian national for his involvement in LockBit ransomware attacks. As previously reported, LockBit is one of the most prolific ransomware groups...
Progress Software has disclosed another critical cybersecurity vulnerability in its MOVEit Transfer software. The previously reported vulnerability (CVE-2023-34362) involves a SQL injection flaw, and...
Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health are actively investigating a cyberattack and data breach that occurred on May 31. Johns Hopkins said that the attack involved a “widely used...
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a HIPAA settlement with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital to resolve a medical record snooping case involving 23 security guards. Yakima Valley Memorial...
Amidst a surge of cybersecurity threats, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has spotlighted a new one, FIN11, a cybercriminal collective originating from the Commonwealth of...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), along with international...
Onix Group, a Kennett Square, Pennsylvania-based company that operates commercial real estate and provides management and consulting services, suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in a healthcare...
St. Margaret’s Health will close the doors of its Spring Valley and Peru, Illinois locations on Friday, June 16, in part due to a cyberattack that it suffered in 2021. A ransomware attack on St....
Tennessee-based revenue cycle management vendor Intellihartx (ITx) disclosed a data breach to the Maine Attorney General’s Office that impacted 489,830 individuals. The breach stemmed from a...
