Data Breaches

274K Patients Impacted by Benefit Recovery Specialists Credential Hack

by Jessica Davis

More than 274,000 patients from several healthcare providers and payers that use Benefit Recovery Specialists (BRSI) for billing and collections services are...

UPDATE: The 10 Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches of 2020, So Far

by Jessica Davis

The healthcare sector saw a whopping 41.4 million patient records breached in 2019, fueled by a 49 percent increase in hacking, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer. And despite the...

Magellan Health Data Breach Victim Tally Reaches 365K Patients

by Jessica Davis

The extent of the ransomware attack that hit Arizona-based Magellan Health in April became clear this week, with eight Magellan Health affiliates and healthcare providers reporting...

American Medical Tech Reports 2019 Email Hack Impacting 47K Patients

by Jessica Davis

California-based American Medical Technologies (AMT), a healthcare supplier, recently began notifying 47,767 patients that their data was potentially breached after a hack of an employee...

UnityPoint Health Reaches $2.8M Settlement Over 2018 Data Breach

by Jessica Davis

Iowa Health System, doing business as UnityPoint Health, has reached a proposed $2.8 million settlement with the millions of patients impacted by two phishing-related data breaches in 2017 and...

Judge Sends Episcopal Health Data Breach Lawsuit Back to State Court

by Jessica Davis

A federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has sent a data breach lawsuit against Episcopal Health Services back to state level courts, saying it lacked the grounds...

Care New England Resolves Weeklong Cyberattack Impacting Servers

by Jessica Davis

Rhode Island-based Care New England (CNE) has fully recovered from a cyberattack that hit its servers nearly a week ago on June 16, which drove the provider to EHR downtime and forced the shutdown of...

Cano Health Reports 2-Year Email Hack Impacting Patient Data

by Jessica Davis

Florida-based Cano Health, a population health management vendor, recently began notifying patients that their data was potentially compromised, after hackers breached three employee email accounts...

Community Care Patients Sue Accounting Firm Over Data Breach

by Jessica Davis

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against accounting firm BST and Co. CPAs, over a ransomware attack that breached the data of 170,000 patients from Community Care Physicians in New York, first...

Health Sector Most Targeted by Hackers, Breach Costs Rise to $17.76B

by Jessica Davis

The healthcare sector was the most targeted by hackers and cyberattacks in 2019. And its 382 data breaches cost the sector more than $17.76B billion, according to ForgeRock’s 2019 Consumer Breach...

Cyberciminals Access PHI, Steal Gift Cards from Kentucky Health Plan

by Jessica Davis

The Commonwealth of Kentucky Personnel Cabinet is notifying nearly 1,000 Kentucky Employees’ Health Plan (KEHP) members that some of their personal and protected health information was...

Aveanna Healthcare Faces Lawsuit Over Monthlong Data Breach

by Jessica Davis

Georgia-based Aveanna Healthcare is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by more than 100 patients impacted by a monthlong data breach from 2019. Over 166,000 patients were affected by the security...

Hackers Access PHI During Mat-Su Surgical Ransomware Attack

by Jessica Davis

Arkansas-based Mat-Su Surgical Associates (MTA) is notifying 13,136 current patients and some current or former patients of Valley Surgical Associates that their protected health information was viewed...

30K Patients Impacted in Ohio Business Associate Breach from 2019

by Jessica Davis

Ohio-based Management and Network Services (MNS) recently began notifying 30,132 patients that their data was potentially compromised after several employee email accounts were hacked for several...

Ransomware Attack on Magellan Health Results in Data Exfiltration

by Jessica Davis

Arizona-based Magellan Health is notifying an undisclosed number of its current employees that their data was compromised after threat actors first exfiltrated sensitive data, before deploying a...

Maze Ransomware Hackers Post Patient Data Stolen from 2 Providers

by Jessica Davis

The notorious Maze ransomware hacking group has failed to follow through with their assurance the healthcare sector would be off-limits during the COVID-19 pandemic, by publishing data stolen from two...

Ransomware Shuts Down Colorado Hospital IT Network Amid COVID-19

by Jessica Davis

Colorado-based Parkview Medical Center’s technology infrastructure was hit with a ransomware attack a week ago on April 21, which caused a number of IT network outages, according to local...

Beaumont Health Reports 2019 Data Breach Impacting 114K Patients

by Jessica Davis

Michigan-based Beaumont Health recently began notifying about 114,000 patients that their personal data was potentially breached after a hack on several employee email accounts in 2019. The...

Ransomware Attack on Brandywine Urology Impacts 131K Patients

by Jessica Davis

About 131,825 patients of Brandywine Urology Consultants are being notified that their data was potentially compromised during a ransomware attack. The Delaware specialist is continuing to investigate...

Another COVID-19 Research Firm Targeted by Ransomware Attack

by Jessica Davis

Hackers successfully targeted and infected California-based 10x Genomics in March, as the biotechnology research firm worked to gain insights into the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, according to a US...