Latest Health Data Breaches News

Law Enforcement Health Benefits Plan Ransomware Attack Impacts 85K

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Law Enforcement Health Benefits Inc. (LEHB) began notifying plan members of a September 2021 ransomware attack that impacted over 85,000 individuals. Threat actors infiltrated LEHB’s network on...

Oklahoma City Indian Clinic Cyberattack Causes Pharmacy Disruptions

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Oklahoma City Indian Clinic (OKCIC) experienced a cyberattack that has disabled certain pharmacy services indefinitely, a statement on its website explained. A post on the clinic’s Twitter...

Health Plans, Laboratories, Health Departments Hit by Healthcare Data Breaches

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Healthcare data breaches continue to impact hospitals and health systems, but cyberattacks at health plans and specialty clinics are also increasing as threat actors set their sights on smaller and...

Kentucky, Tennessee Hospitals Begin Cybersecurity Incident Recovery

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Both Taylor Regional Hospital (TRH) in Kentucky and East Tennessee Children's Hospital (ETCH) are beginning the long journey to cybersecurity incident recovery. Two separate security incidents...

NJ Dialysis Center, Neurosurgery Practice Both Face Cyberattacks

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Two New Jersey-based healthcare organizations fell victim to separate cyberattacks that potentially resulted in protected health information (PHI) exposure. In 2021, Critical Insight observed a...

Healthcare Cyberattacks Impact Benefit Plans, Safety-Net Clinic

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Healthcare cyberattacks continue to plague the sector as threat actors find new targets and tactics. Along with targeting large hospitals, threat actors are increasingly aiming their attacks at smaller...

East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Experiencing Security Issue

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East Tennessee Children's Hospital (ETCH) fell victim to an "information technology security issue" on March 13, a notice on its website stated. At the time of publication, the children's...

Labette Health, Capital Region Medical Center Confirm Data Breaches

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Both Labette Health and Capital Region Medical Center (CRMC) confirmed healthcare data breaches that occurred late last year. The breaches both resulted in potential protected health information (PHI)...

Logan Health Faces Lawsuit in Wake of Hacking Incident

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A victim of a November hacking incident against Logan Health Medical Center recently filed a class-action lawsuit against the Montana medical center, alleging negligence and invasion of privacy. Logan...

CO Hospital Suffers Email Data Breach, 52K Impacted

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Colorado hospital Montrose Regional Health fell victim to an email data breach that went undetected from August to October 2021 and impacted 52,632 individuals. In a notice on its website, Montrose...

Duncan Regional Hospital Data Breach Impacts 92K

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Oklahoma-based Duncan Regional Hospital (DRH) suffered a data breach in January 2022 that impacted over 92,000 individuals, according to the Maine Attorney General’s Office. The not-for-profit...

Monongalia Health Suffers Second Healthcare Data Breach

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West Virginia-based health system Monongalia Health began notifying patients of a healthcare data breach that resulted in unauthorized access to protected health information (PHI). Just a few months...

Houston Health Department Suffers Healthcare Data Breach

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The Houston Health Department suffered a data breach on its COVID-19 test results portal. Approximately 3,500 portal users may have had access to 10,000 COVID-19 test results. The results included the...

Montana Medical Center Faces Hacking Incident Impacting 214K

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Healthcare data breaches continue to burden the healthcare sector. As geopolitical tensions rise due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the American Hospital Association (AHA) warned that US...

Jackson Hospital Suffers Patient Data Exfiltration Incident

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Data exfiltration and improper protected health information (PHI) access were the cause of some recent healthcare data breaches. As data breaches continue to overwhelm the healthcare sector,...

Sea Mar Community Health Centers Faces Lawsuit Over Data Breach

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Seattle-based Sea Mar Community Health Centers (SMCHC) is facing a class-action lawsuit over its handling of a 2021 data breach that impacted 688,000 individuals. The lawsuit alleged that SMCHC was...

Malware, Employee Email Breaches Result in PHI Exposure

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One look at the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) data breach portal shows that hospitals, nonprofits, and small community health centers continue to face healthcare data breaches. Hundreds of thousands...

Illinois Hospital, FQHC Suffer Healthcare Data Breaches, PHI Exposure

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This week, two Illinois healthcare organizations began notifying patients of separate healthcare data breaches that caused protected health information (PHI) exposure. South Shore Hospital in Chicago...

Lengthy Healthcare Cyberattack Recovery Disrupts MD Department of Health

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The road to healthcare cyberattack recovery is long for the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) as it enters month three of restoring business operations. Meanwhile, Taylor Regional Hospital (TRH) in...

Third-Party Data Breaches, Unauthorized Email Access Cause PHI Exposure

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Third-party data breaches, unauthorized email access, and cyberattacks aimed at small outpatient facilities continue to impact the healthcare sector. Threat actors are increasingly leveraging...