Data Breaches

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...

Data Breaches Hit Saltzer Health, Loyola University Medical Center

by Jill McKeon

Hospitals and outpatient facilities, both large and small, continue to be the targets of healthcare data breaches, placing additional strain on an already overworked sector. The new year began with...

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...

Business Associate Data Breach Impacts 32 Healthcare Organizations

by Jill McKeon

More than 30 healthcare organizations were impacted by a business associate data breach targeted at Ciox Health, a clinical data technology company. An unauthorized third party accessed one Ciox...

Healthcare Data Breaches Continue as New Year Begins

by Jill McKeon

As a new year begins, threat actors are continuing to overwhelm providers and patients with healthcare data breaches. Some experts predict that ransomware actors will favor data exfiltration over...

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...

West Virginia-Based Monongalia Health System Suffers Phishing Attack

by Jill McKeon

West Virginia-based Monongalia Health System (Mon Health), along with its affiliated hospitals Monongalia County General Hospital Company and Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital Company announced that...

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...

Mid-Size Orgs Continue to Be Targeted in Healthcare Cyberattacks

by Jill McKeon

Healthcare cyberattacks continue to plague small and mid-size organizations and outpatient facilities as larger health systems implement safeguards that make attacks more challenging. Trends on the...

Unprotected Database Exposes 170K Healthcare Staffing Records

by Jill McKeon

UPDATE 12/3/21: Gale Healthcare Solutions provided an update to HealthITSecurity. "The database was a temporary environment created for an internal system test. When the researcher notified us of a...

Former NY Hospital Employee Charged with HIPAA Violation

by Jill McKeon

New York-based Huntington Hospital began notifying 13,000 patients of a data breach that exposed protected health information (PHI) and resulted in a former employee being charged with a HIPAA...

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...