Advent Health Partners has agreed to pay a $500,000 settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2021 healthcare data breach that affected more than 60,000 patients.
Advent Health...
iCare Acquisition, the parent company of 20/20 Eye Care Network and 20/20 Hearing Care Network, agreed to a $3 million settlement to resolve a healthcare data breach lawsuit.
In January 2021, 20/20...
Healthcare data breaches had the greatest impact in the second quarter of 2022 compared to previous years, with a 35 percent increase in the number of patient records affected, Critical Insight noted...
US Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced the Secure Access for Essential Reproductive (SAFER) Health Act, which offers strengthened HIPAA protections that would prohibit...
Wentworth Health Partners Garrison Women’s Health (GWH) informed patients that a third-party data breach impacted its IT infrastructure in December 2022, making some patient information...
In a recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, Community Health Systems (CHS) disclosed a third-party data breach involving Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT)...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a major threat to healthcare cybersecurity, as exemplified by the ongoing cyberattack tactics of KillNet, a pro-Russian hacktivist group that has been...
If approved by the Worcester County Superior Court, UMass Memorial Health Center will pay $1.2 million to settle a healthcare data breach lawsuit. The lawsuit stemmed from a breach that took place...
New deployment methods of the GootLoader malware loader, search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning tactics, and the deployment of additional C2 frameworks such as Cobalt Strike and SystemBC are...
Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) sent letters to telehealth companies Cerebral, Monument, and WorkIt Health, addressing concerns...
San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare notified 62,777 patients of a healthcare data breach that may have exposed their personal health information.
On January 12, 2023, Sharp HealthCare discovered...
North Korean state-sponsored cyber threat actors have been targeting the healthcare sector with ransomware, the National Security Agency (NSA), HHS, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S....
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...
Highmark Health suffered a phishing attack that impacted 300,000 individuals, a notice provided to the Maine Attorney General’s Office stated. Highmark Health is the second largest integrated...
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...
