Data Breach Management

Family Medicine Practice Notifies Patients of Data Breach 1 Year Later

by Jill McKeon

Entira Family Clinics, a family medicine practice based in Minnesota, sent data breach notification letters to impacted individuals via the Maine Attorney General’s Office on January 13, 2022....

Lasting Effects of Kronos Cyberattack Ripple Through Healthcare

by Jill McKeon

HR management solutions provider Kronos, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), is still recovering from a December 11 cyberattack that impacted Kronos Private Cloud customers across multiple...

MD Department of Health Systems Down 1 Month After Ransomware Attack

by Jill McKeon

The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) is still trying to recover from a December 4 cyberattack that disabled multiple network infrastructure systems. The cyberattack has impacted state health...

EHR Vendor QRS Faces Lawsuit After Healthcare Cyberattack

by Jill McKeon

QRS, a healthcare technology company that provides EHR services, is now facing a lawsuit in the wake of an August 2021 cyberattack that impacted nearly 320,000 current and former patients. In the...

Billing Error Causes PHI Breach at Illinois Health System

by Jill McKeon

UPDATED 1/6/2022  Illinois-based Advocate Aurora Health faced a protected health information (PHI) breach due to a billing error that caused the health information of over 1,600 patients to be...

PHI Breach, Data Exfiltration at Broward Health Impacts 1.3 Million

by Jill McKeon

Florida-based health system Broward Health provided notice of an October 2021 healthcare data breach that exposed protected health information (PHI) and resulted in data exfiltration. The breach has...

Accounting Firm Faces Lawsuit Over Healthcare Data Breach

by Jill McKeon

Chicago-based accounting firm Bansley and Kiener (B&K) allegedly failed to notify impacted individuals of a healthcare data breach until more than six months after the incident, a lawsuit filed on...

NJ Provider Settles Two Healthcare Data Breach Investigations For $425K

by Jill McKeon

Regional Cancer Care Associates LLC, RCCA MSO LLC, and RCCA MD LLC, known collectively as RCCA, will pay $425,000 and implement new security measures to settle two healthcare data breach...

Kronos Cyberattack Takes Down Healthcare Workforce Management Services

by Jill McKeon

HR management solutions provider Kronos, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), fell victim to a ransomware attack that impacted healthcare workforce management and payroll services. In a blog...

Weak Passwords, Poor Cyber Hygiene Invite Healthcare Data Breaches

by Jill McKeon

Poor cyber hygiene and weak passwords leave organizations vulnerable to healthcare data breaches. Almost a third of surveyed IT professionals from a variety of industries reported weak password...

Two Data Breaches at WA Senior Care Nonprofit Impact 103K

by Jill McKeon

Sound Generations, a nonprofit that provides food security, transportation, and health and wellness services to seniors and disabled adults in King County, Washington, experienced two data breaches...

Cyberattack Pushes Maryland Department of Health Website Offline

by Jill McKeon

A cyberattack pushed the Maryland Department of Health website offline over the December 4 weekend, The Washington Post reported. On December 5, the Department of Health’s webpage was rerouted...

Patients File Lawsuits in Wake of Healthcare Data Breaches

by Jill McKeon

Healthcare data breaches may result in the exposure of protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII), and victims are often advised to remain vigilant against...

Millions of Patients Receive Healthcare Data Breach Notifications

by Jill McKeon

Under the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, HIPAA covered entities are required to provide notification of a healthcare data breach to impacted individuals whose protected health information (PHI) was...

Ohio Hospital Faces Sixth Day of EHR Downtime After Cyberattack

by Jill McKeon

Healthcare cyberattacks continue to overwhelm the sector as the end of the year approaches. At the time of publication, one Ohio hospital is facing ongoing EHR downtime and appointment cancelations as...

EHR Downtime Persists in Wake of Ohio Medical Center Cyberattack

by Jill McKeon

Ongoing EHR downtime at Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) is causing continued appointment cancelations on Monday, November 15. The medical center first alerted patients to “unplanned downtime...

320K Impacted in EHR Vendor Breach, Ransomware Hits Health Systems

by Jill McKeon

An EHR vendor began notifying its clients of a data breach that may have exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of nearly 320,000 individuals....

Healthcare Cyberattacks Target 2 TX Hospitals, Expose PHI

by Jill McKeon

Two Texas hospitals, Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital and Lavaca Medical Center began notifying patients of recent cyberattacks that exposed protected health information (PHI). Throckmorton...

42% of Healthcare Organizations Do Not Have Incident Response Plans

by Jill McKeon

Over 40 percent of surveyed healthcare organizations have not yet implemented an incident response plan to account for the constant threats of phishing, ransomware, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities...