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...
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...
UPDATE 2/2/2023 - This article has been updated to include a statement from GoodRx.
GoodRx agreed to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty for violating the Health Breach Notification Rule by failing...
Three cybersecurity vulnerabilities in an older version of OpenEMR may leave healthcare organizations open to cyberattacks, HHS warned. HHS urged healthcare organizations using versions of OpenEMR...
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...
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...
Cloud adoption in healthcare has continued to increase in recent years, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from Wipro Limited suggested.
The pandemic opened organizations up to expanded...
Dixon, Illinois-based Katherine Shaw Bethea (KSB) Hospital reached a proposed settlement of $380,000 to resolve a class action lawsuit filed in the aftermath of a September 2021 healthcare data...
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) notified more than 184,000 individuals of a healthcare data breach recently, according to a breach notice provided to the Maine Attorney General’s...
UCHealth and UCLA Health were the latest entities to report recent healthcare data breaches, both tied to third-party vendors.
UCHealth Suffers Third-Party Data Breach
UCHealth in Aurora,...
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...
