Customers of One Medical, a direct paid, membership-based primary care practice, inadvertently had their email addresses shared with fellow customers.
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Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is the latest hospital system to fall victim to Elekta’s recent data breach, exposing oncology patients’ protected health information...
New York-based practice management vendor Practicefirst announced that a 2020 healthcare ransomware attack may have exposed personally identifiable information (PII) of patients and employees. The...
Aultman Health Foundation in Ohio announced the termination of an unnamed employee who committed a HIPAA violation that put patient EHRs and personally identifiable information (PII) at risk. For over...
University Medical Center of Southern Nevada announced Tuesday that it fell victim to a hospital ransomware attack that exposed personally identifiable information (PII). The attack was claimed by the...
Renown Health in Nevada announced that its patients’ protected health information (PHI) was exposed through an April data breach of its business associate, Elekta. Over 40 other health systems...
UofL Health in Louisville, Kentucky sent notification letters to over 40,000 patients explaining that their protected health information (PHI) was accidentally sent to the wrong email address in a...
Over 70 percent of cybersecurity leaders from various sectors have transferred at least half of their organization’s data to the cloud, according to a recent survey conducted by Corinium...
Japanese company Hoya Optical Labs recently notified its US customers of an April 5th healthcare ransomware attack that may have exposed personally identifiable information (PII) including Social...
Ohio State University’s (OSU) Veterans Neuromodulation Operation Wellness (NOW) pilot program was compromised earlier this year prior to the program shutting down permanently, according to a...
Scripps Health in San Diego, California is facing two class-action lawsuits after a recent ransomware attack that led to EHR downtime and disruptions in care. The plaintiffs claim that the attack was...
Data breaches and ransomware attacks have been wreaking havoc on the healthcare sector in recent months. In the hands of bad actors, millions of patients have received notice from their healthcare...
Insight Global, a company hired by the state of Pennsylvania to administer its contact tracing program, asked former and current employees to return and secure any documents that might still contain...
St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C), a large hospital system in Savannah, Georgia, suffered a ransomware attack on June 17th, according to a report by local news station WSAV. The attack led to EHR...
More than 1 billion CVS Health search records were accidentally posted online in a data breach incident in late March by an unnamed third party vendor. Independent cybersecurity researcher Jerimiah...
MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio, experienced a data breach connected to a vendor, CaptureRx, whose ransomware breach affected at least 16 other healthcare organizations. At MetroHealth, patient...
Ransomware attacks can be both costly and dangerous for those impacted. But for the healthcare industry in particular, patient data is put at risk and taking EHR systems offline can delay critical...
The Cancer Centers of Southwest Oklahoma announced that it was part of a cancer software data breach through its business associate, Elekta, that may have leaked sensitive patient information. The...
Ohio-based Five Rivers Health Centers recently notified 155,748 patients that their personally identifiable and health information was breached after a two-month long email compromise last year,...
