Phishing Attacks

More Health Quest Patients Added to 2018 Phishing Attack Victims

by Jessica Davis

New York-based Health Quest recently began another round of breach notification letters, after discovering more patient data than initially estimated was compromised during a 2018 phishing...

Cyber Threats Behind the Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches of 2019

by Jessica Davis

Healthcare faced some of the biggest data breaches of recent history in 2019, as hackers shifted tactics to increase the success rate of financially motivated attacks. At the start of last year, trojan...

New Mexico Hospital Finds Malware Infection on Digital Imaging Server

by Jessica Davis

New Mexico-based Roosevelt General Hospital discovered malware on the digital imaging server of its radiology department, which possibly allowed hackers to view the digital medical images of about 500...

The 10 Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches of 2019, So Far

by Jessica Davis

In 2018, the healthcare sector saw 15 million patient records compromised in 503 breaches, three times the amount seen in 2017, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer. But just over halfway through...

Perils of Healthcare Phishing and What You Can Do About It

by Fred Donovan

The old stereotype used to be that doctors didn’t work on Wednesday because they were out playing golf or fishing. Today, healthcare phishing is no joke to doctors, many of whom work on Wednesdays and weekends, or for other...