The Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center (LCHD) in Illinois is currently notifying over 700 individuals impacted by a recent healthcare data...
Over 43,000 patients are being notified after a cyberattack on NYC Health + Hospitals exposed private data, which included Protected Health Information...
California is tightening up its health facility data breach regulations and recently issued an update to its administrative penalties and reporting requirements.
The newly...
ClearBalance, a California-based company, is notifying over 200,000 customers that their personally identifiable information (PII) may have been stolen during a recent...
A Texas mas was sentenced to prison on July 8 for stealing patients' private health information and going on shopping sprees, among other crimes, according...
The Iowa-based Peoples Community Health Clinic (PCHC) notified patients on June 29 that a recent cyberattack may have impacted patients’ private information.
PCHC...
Customers of One Medical, a direct paid, membership-based primary care practice, inadvertently had their email addresses shared with fellow customers.
“We are...
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...
New York-based practice management vendor Practicefirst announced that a 2020 healthcare ransomware attack may have exposed personally identifiable information (PII) of patients and employees. The...
University Medical Center of Southern Nevada announced Tuesday that it fell victim to a hospital ransomware attack that exposed personally identifiable information (PII). The attack was claimed by the...
Renown Health in Nevada announced that its patients’ protected health information (PHI) was exposed through an April data breach of its business associate, Elekta. Over 40 other health systems...
UofL Health in Louisville, Kentucky sent notification letters to over 40,000 patients explaining that their protected health information (PHI) was accidentally sent to the wrong email address in a...
Japanese company Hoya Optical Labs recently notified its US customers of an April 5th healthcare ransomware attack that may have exposed personally identifiable information (PII) including Social...
Ohio State University’s (OSU) Veterans Neuromodulation Operation Wellness (NOW) pilot program was compromised earlier this year prior to the program shutting down permanently, according to a...
The University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network fell victim to a ransomware attack in late October, and recent reports reveal that the network is still working to recuperate after losing upwards of $63...
Scripps Health in San Diego, California is facing two class-action lawsuits after a recent ransomware attack that led to EHR downtime and disruptions in care. The plaintiffs claim that the attack was...
Data breaches and ransomware attacks have been wreaking havoc on the healthcare sector in recent months. In the hands of bad actors, millions of patients have received notice from their healthcare...
Insight Global, a company hired by the state of Pennsylvania to administer its contact tracing program, asked former and current employees to return and secure any documents that might still contain...
