Personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) may seem similar on the surface, but key distinctions set them apart. While PII is a catch-all term for any information...
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...
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...
Michigan-based Beaumont Health is the latest victim of the Accellion data breach, a December 2020 cyberattack that claimed 100 victims and counting. Millions of patients’ data were compromised...
Oklahoma-based CareATC announced that it fell victim to a provider data breach that jeopardized the personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of over 98,000...
DuPage Medical Group (DMG), the largest independent physician group in Illinois, began notifying patients of a healthcare data breach that may have exposed protected health information...
Metro Infectious Disease Consultants (MIDC) began notifying individuals of a healthcare data breach that may have exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information...
A healthcare ransomware attack resulted in potential exposure of the personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of over 48,000 individuals at Indiana-based...
Atlanta Allergy & Asthma (AAA) began notifying 9,800 patients of a healthcare data breach that resulted in protected health information (PHI) being removed from the provider’s network in...
Utah-based health system Revere Health announced it was the victim of a healthcare phishing scam on June 21 that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of 12,000 patients at the Heart of Dixie...
University of New Mexico (UNM) Health announced that it fell victim to a data breach that may have exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of over...
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed a new cybersecurity regulation into law, creating additional measures for insurance companies to protect the personally identifiable...
The pandemic has brought about an increase in healthcare-related electronic information and an increased need for health information regulations, according to...
Advocate Aurora Health is notifying over 68,000 patients of its seven Illinois sites that their PHI is part of the recent Elekta health data breach.
A total of 68,707 individuals are...
Intermountain Healthcare of Southern Nevada is one of the latest victims of the larger Elekta health data breach, which exposed patients’ protected health...
Florida Heart Associates is notifying over 45,000 individuals about a health cyberattack that exposed their protected health information (PHI.)
A total...
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...