Third-party data breaches are continuing to overwhelm the healthcare sector, based on the current state of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) data breach portal.
As organizations continue to report...
Avamere Health Services, a group of independently-owned post-acute care companies that provide care for seniors, reported a data breach that impacted 96 practices and at least 380,000...
On May 20, an unknown individual broke into a locked storage area at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center and stole an iPad, which led to potential protected health information (PHI)...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts began notifying 4,855 individuals of a third-party vendor data breach, a notice on the Maine Attorney General’s Office website stated.
The...
Healthcare data breaches continue to overwhelm the sector in the latter half of the year, with organizations reporting ransomware attacks, third and fourth-party breaches, and unauthorized network...
Transplant donor records were available to transplant recipients at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCU Health) as early as January 2006, the health system informed patients recently....
Baton Rouge General, Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital, and Southwest Health Center all recently reported separate healthcare cyberattacks. Reports of healthcare cyberattacks continue to roll in as...
Professional Finance Company (PFC), an accounts receivable management agency based in Greeley, Colorado, disclosed a ransomware attack that impacted 660 of its healthcare organization...
Two healthcare organizations reported email data breaches recently, involving unauthorized access to one or more employee email accounts. In addition, the Eye Care Leaders (ECL) breach tally continues...
As previously reported, Seattle-based company MCG Health suffered a data breach in March resulting from unauthorized access. The Seattle-based software company provides patient care guidelines to...
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Charles J. Hilton, PC, (CJH) agreed to a $450,000 settlement to resolve allegations relating to a 2020 healthcare data breach. UPMC had engaged...
Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) informed an undisclosed number of individuals of a healthcare data breach that involved a radiology file. The file was created for research and was accidentally posted on...
Texas-based Baptist Medical Center and Resolute Health Hospital informed an undisclosed number of patients that its network was infected with malicious code, potentially resulting in protected health...
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) added 1.3 million to the total number of individuals impacted by the Eye Care Leaders (ECL) EMR data breach, bringing the total to over 2...
Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) suffered a ransomware attack in late April that exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal information of thousands of individuals. In a notice posted on...
Kaiser Permanente notified 69,589 individuals of a data breach that occurred at the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington. According to a notice on its website, Kaiser Permanente discovered on...
Three organizations suffered healthcare data breaches and reported them to HHS recently. All three incidents described below involved unauthorized access to certain systems or email accounts.
In...
Eye Care Leaders, which offers an ophthalmology-specific EMR solution, experienced unauthorized access to its myCare Integrity system in December 2021.
Since notifying impacted eye care practices on...
Shields Health Care Group reported a healthcare cyberattack to HHS impacting 2 million individuals. The Massachusetts-based healthcare group provides MRI, PET/CT, and ambulatory surgical services to...
Bryan County Ambulance Authority in Oklahoma began notifying patients of a ransomware attack it experienced in November 2021. According to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) data breach portal, the...