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Month: June 2019

9-Year PHI Breach Reported by Dominion National

June 28, 2019 Christine Garcia

Virginia-based Dominion National, which is an insurance company, health plan manager, and administrator of dental and vision benefits, learned that a data breach affected the personal information of individuals connected to the services it provides. […]

Estes Park Health Paid Ransom Two Times to Get All File Decryption Keys

June 27, 2019 Christine Garcia

Estes Park Health (EPH) located in Colorado was attacked by ransomware, which extensively encrypted files all across its network. EPH discovered the ransomware attack on June 2, 2019 when employees noticed and reported the computers’ […]

Patient Care Coordinator Sentenced to 1 Year Imprisonment for HIPAA Violation

June 26, 2019 Christine Garcia

A patient care coordinator previously employed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) received a one-year imprisonment term for accessing patient healthcare records and utilizing that data for malicious damages. Sue Kalina, 62, living […]

Risk of Wiper Malware Attacks by Iranian Threat Actors Increasing

June 25, 2019 Christine Garcia

The Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave a warning after a surge in ‘Iranian regime actors’ cyberattacks. Christopher C. Krebs gave the warning as tensions build up […]

CCI Study Reveals More Healthcare Data Breaches Involve Server Vulnerabilities

June 24, 2019 Christine Garcia

Cybercriminals that locate and exploit vulnerabilities to access healthcare networks and patient information are increasing their activities. The last two months were the worst and second worst months in terms of number of healthcare data […]

About 60 Assisted Living Facilities and 78,000 Patients’ Prescription Data Affected by Breaches

June 22, 2019 Christine Garcia

A ransomware attack on Tenx Systems, a company providing software for assisted living communities, impacted over 60 facilities that utilize the software program. Also known as ResiDex Software, Tenx Systems stated the attack happened on […]

645,000 People Impacted by Oregon Department of Human Services Phishing Breach

June 20, 2019 Christine Garcia

A phishing attack on the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) resulted to the potential compromise of the personal information of 645,000 clients. The phishing attack began on January 9, 2019, which got 9 ODHS […]

21,000 Patients Impacted By Ransomware Attack on Shingle Springs Health and Wellness Center

June 19, 2019 Christine Garcia

A recent ransomware attack on Shingle Springs Health and Wellness Center (SSHWC) located in Placerville, CA resulted to the potential compromise of the protected health information (PHI) of 21,513 patients. SSHWC found out on April […]

Mental Health Awareness Webinar Hosted by Rave Mobile Safety on June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019 Christine Garcia

Rave Mobile Safety is hosting a webinar on June 18, 2019 that seeks to give better understanding of mental health problems, the difficulties community members encounter in relation to mental health conditions, and how to […]

Urology Practice Pays Ransom Worth $75,000 to Restore Computer Systems Access

June 17, 2019 Christine Garcia

An extreme ransomware attack on N.E.O Urology based in Boardman, OH impacted all of its IT system. The ransomware brought about extensive file encryption and prevented the healthcare provider from accessing its computers and patient […]

Phishing Attack on Union Labor Life Insurance Exposed 87,400 Patients’ PHI

June 14, 2019 Christine Garcia

A phishing attack on Union Labor Life Insurance (ULLI), a subsidiary of Ullico Inc., resulted to the exposure of 87,000 plan members’protected health information (PHI). Data exposure happened because an employee responded to a phishing […]

Breaches at Takai, Hoover & Hsu and Navicent Health Ended Up With a Fired Nurse and 10,970 Patient PHI Exposed

June 13, 2019 Christine Garcia

An ex-employee of a healthcare provider based in Germantown, MD is alleged to have accessed the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 16,542 patients. The information was allegedly given to a third party to be […]

Lawsuits and Investigations Related to the AMCA Data Breach

June 12, 2019 Christine Garcia

Ever since reports regarding the massive data breach at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) became known, over 12 lawsuits had been submitted by breach victims. Quest Diagnostics formally reported the breach on June 3, 2019 […]

LabCorp Patients Also Impacted by AMCA Breach

June 11, 2019 Christine Garcia

News reports spoke of the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) data breach that brought about the compromise of 11.9 million Quest Diagnostics patient records. Current news cite another healthcre company affected by the AMCA breach. […]

SSNs of Delta Health Systems Plan Members Exposed Over the Internet

June 10, 2019 Christine Garcia

Turlock Irrigation District in California is notifying its employees who are members of their employer-sponsored health plan regarding the exposure of some of their protected health information (PHI) online due to a business associate error. […]

Misconfiguration Exposed Over 1.68 Million Records at University of Chicago Medicine

June 9, 2019 Christine Garcia

The huge data breaches lately which included the breach at Quest Diagnostics affecting 11.9 million records and the breach at LabCorp affecting 7.7 million records. Now, University of Chicago Medicine announced a data breach with […]

Patient Allowed to Sue Hospital and Employee for Privacy Violation by Vermont Supreme Court

June 6, 2019 Christine Garcia

The Vermont Supreme Court issued a ruling permitting a patient to take legal action against a hospital and nurse for privacy violation, irrespective of Vermont law and the HIPAA law that do not allow private […]

Microsoft Issues Fresh BlueKeep Alert: Public Exploits Exist and the Pending Attacks

June 5, 2019 Christine Garcia

Microsoft issued another warning regarding the BlueKeep vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708) after publishing online proof-of-concept exploits for the vulnerability. Microsoft issued fixes for the vulnerability on May 14, 2019. Patches were also made […]

$74 Million Settlement Proposed to Premera Blue Cross Proposed to Settle Class Action Lawsuit for $74 Million

June 4, 2019 Christine Garcia

In March 2015, health insurer Premera Blue Cross in Seattle reported a major data breach that affected close to 10.6 million plan members. The breach happened in 2014 and a wide range of information was […]

Phishing Attack on People Inc. and OS Inc. Impact Patient PHI

June 3, 2019 Christine Garcia

People Inc. is a non-profit health and human services firm located in Western New York providing services to elderly people and people with developmental disabilities. A phishing attack on the organization affected roughly 1,000 persons. […]

PHI Exposed at Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants and Health Net of California Breaches

June 1, 2019 Christine Garcia

Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants (MOHC), a Newark,DE based cancer treatment center, suffered an email security breach that lead to the compromise of the protected health information (PHI) of some patients. MOHC published a substitute breach […]

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