Customers regularly provide their heart rate, weight, height, sleep, fertility, and other sensitive medical data to health apps. But while standard healthcare providers are beholden to HIPAA, health...
A baby born at Springhill Medical Center in Alabama later died due to diminished care that resulted from a 2019 healthcare ransomware attack, a lawsuit alleged. The case marks the first public claim...
As COVID-19 continues to overwhelm providers across the country, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting smaller facilities with sophisticated healthcare ransomware attacks that cause EHR downtime...
UC San Diego Health is facing a lawsuit after a healthcare data breach spanning from December 2020 to April 2021 impacted almost 500,000 individuals. Lawyers filed the suit in San Diego federal court...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the National Security Agency (NSA) released an advisory warning organizations of Conti ransomware group, a notorious hacking...
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) began notifying Alaska residents about a May 2021 cyberattack that impacted an unknown number of Alaskans and may have exposed protected...
Recent data breaches continue to show the growing prevalence of Hive ransomware and other hacking groups as they continue to infiltrate the networks of US healthcare providers.
High-profile...
Financial strain, care disruptions, and time-consuming recovery operations often result from healthcare ransomware attacks, but new research revealed that increased patient mortality is also likely in...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a policy statement emphasizing that health apps and connected device companies must comply with the Health Breach Notification Rule. The rule requires vendors...
HealthReach Community Health Centers in Waterville, Maine, began notifying over 100,000 patients of a health data breach that resulted from improper disposal of hard drives. The hard drives were...
Two class action lawsuits were filed against St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) alleging that the large Georgia health system was negligent in preventing a December 2020 ransomware attack that went...
Over 61 million fitness tracker records from both Apple and Fitbit were exposed online in a recent wearable device data breach, according to a report from WebsitePlanet and independent cybersecurity...
Millions who got COVID-19 tests at Walgreens may find that their personally identifiable information (PII) was left open on the internet for all to see, thanks to a cyber vulnerability found by...
Gastroenterology Consultants in Houston, Texas, began notifying over 161,000 patients of a January ransomware attack on August 6. The notification came as a surprise to many patients who were unaware...
Arizona-based Queen Creek Medical Center, also known as Desert Wells Family Medicine, will have to rebuild patient medical records from scratch after a ransomware attack corrupted and destroyed EHRs....
Employee email misuse led to patient protected health information (PHI) being compromised in two recent healthcare data breaches, one in California and the other in Florida.
As ransomware attacks...
California health center LifeLong Medical Care began notifying over 115,000 individuals of a business associate ransomware attack that may have exposed protected health information (PHI) and personally...
Illinois-based DuPage Medical Group (DMG) is facing a lawsuit just a few days after it notified over 600,000 patients of a cyberattack that may have compromised protected health information (PHI).
The...
Massachusetts-based Sturdy Memorial Hospital is facing a class action lawsuit after a ransomware attack in February that impacted over 35,000 individuals and put personally identifiable information...
San Andreas Regional Center (SARC), a non-profit that provides support and services for those with developmental disabilities, announced that it suffered a ransomware attack that may have exposed the...
