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Lawsuit Strikes 90 Degree Benefits After 181K-Impacted Data Breach

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90 Degree Benefits, a health insurance company, is in hot water as a proposed class-action lawsuit emerges, following a data breach that jeopardized the privacy of more than 181,543 individuals. The...

FDA: Critical Illumina Cybersecurity Vulnerability May Allow Threat Actors to Control Devices Remotely

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alerted healthcare providers and laboratory personnel of a cybersecurity vulnerability that impacts the Universal Copy Service (UCS) software in select...

Washington State Passes My Health, My Data Act to Safeguard Health Data Privacy

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Washington state Governor Jay Inslee signed the My Health My Data Act (House Bill 1155) into law, bolstering health data protections for Washington residents. The act aims to modernize the...

Clop, LockBit Leveraging 3 Known Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Ransomware Attacks, HHS Warns

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The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a sector alert about the current operations of Clop and LockBit ransomware groups. The Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) groups have...

Latest Reported Data Breaches Impact Variety of Healthcare Orgs

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Healthcare data breaches continue to impact large and small organizations across the country, as exemplified by the most recent batch of data breach notifications outlined below. Graceworks Lutheran...

CA Health Plan Reports Data Breach Tied to Fortra GoAnywhere Hack

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California-based Santa Clara Health Plan (SCHP) reported a breach tied to a known vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) solution that impacted 276,993 individuals. As...

Data Breach Lawsuits Tied to Tracking Pixel Use On the Rise In Healthcare

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As data breach notifications tied to the use of tracking pixels continue to surface, experts have observed a wave of lawsuits following close behind. BakerHostetler observed more than 50 lawsuits being...

Ex-Methodist Staff Plead Guilty to Illegal PHI Exposure in HIPAA Violation Case

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Six individuals, including five former Methodist Hospital employees, face sentencing for HIPAA violations after pleading guilty to the unauthorized disclosure of personal health information (PHI)...

91% of Orgs Expect to Increase Cybersecurity Budgets in Next Year

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As ransomware continues to impact organizations worldwide, cybersecurity leaders are increasingly recognizing the importance of investing resources into improving their security programs and processes....

Health3PT Unveils First Actions to Address Third-Party Risk Management

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The Health 3rd Party Trust (Health3PT) Initiative has unveiled its first deliverables to tackle third-party cyber risk management (TPRM) in healthcare, backed by a rapidly growing membership of...

Healthcare Is More Reactive Than Proactive When It Comes to Cybersecurity, KLAS, AHA, Censinet Find

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KLAS, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and healthcare risk management solutions company Censinet released the much-anticipated first wave of results of its Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking...

SEO Poisoning, Cobalt Strike Abuse, Emotet Continue to Threaten Healthcare Cybersecurity

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Search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning, Cobalt Strike abuse, and other tactics are increasingly being used against the healthcare sector, BlackBerry observed in its quarterly Global Threat...

1 in 5 Connected Medical Devices Run On Unsupported Operating Systems

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New data from asset visibility and security company Armis found that 1 in 5 connected medical devices run on unsupported operating systems (OS). To inform its research, Armis analyzed data collected by...

Excel File Exposed to Internet at CA Health System

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San Francisco-based John Muir Health (JMH) notified 821 patients of a security incident that occurred when an Excel file containing patient information was accidentally exposed to the internet. JMH...

DC Health Link Points to Human Error as Cause of Data Leak

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At a recent House Oversight Committee hearing, Mila Kofman, executive director of the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority (DCHBX) delivered a testimony providing new information about the data breach...

Threat Actors Deviate From Common Tactics in Global Cyberattacks, Mandiant Observes

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Mandiant observed threat actors favoring the financial, professional services, high tech and healthcare industries in 2022, according to its newly released M-Trends 2023 report. The report aimed to...

Parent of 2 Major Massachusetts Health Insurers Suffers Ransomware Attack

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Massachusetts-based Point32Health, the parent of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, posted a notice on its website regarding a “cybersecurity ransomware incident” that it...

Quantifying the Financial Impact of Healthcare Ransomware Attacks

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The average cost of a healthcare ransomware attack was $4.82 million in 2021, according to IBM Security’s “Cost of a Data Breach Report.” In a new report by ThreatConnect, the cyber...

CISA Reveals Enhanced Zero Trust Maturity Model

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) unveiled the upgraded Zero Trust Maturity Model Version 2 in line with President Biden's National Cybersecurity Strategy. The new model...

55% of Surveyed Healthcare Workers Believe Security Policies Keep Up With New Tech

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A survey of more than 400 healthcare workers revealed perceived gaps in healthcare security programs, Salesforce discovered. As new technologies such as generative AI gain popularity, security experts...