The 8th HIPAA financial penalty of 2019 has been announced by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Sentara Hospitals has made an agreement to pay a penalty of $2.175 […]
The Anti-Phishing Working Group’s Phishing Activity Trends Report for Q3, 2019 stated that the rate of phishing attacks now is at a rate that is the highest since 2016. In Q3 of 2019, there were […]
Google has affirmed the news of its partnership with one of the biggest U.S. healthcare systems so that it could access a substantial volume of patient information. Google partnered with Ascension, which is the world’s […]
Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York announced a security breach that happened in late July 2019 involving malware installation on some hospital servers. The quick discovery of the incident minimized the problems caused since safety […]
A ransomware attack on Virtual Care Provider Inc. (VCP), a provider of data storage, internet, and email services, cybersecurity, and other IT services in Wisconsin, resulted in the encryption of the healthcare records and other […]
A phishing attack on Choice Cancer Care Treatment Center (CCCT) in May 2019 resulted in the potential access of the protected health information (PHI) of some patients by unauthorized people in May 2019. CCCT is […]
Aegis Medical Group, a physician group in Florida, began informing 9,800 patients regarding the potential access of their protected health information (PHI) by a former employee. Allegedly, that person tried to sell patient data to […]
A phishing attack on Solara Medical Supplies, LLC in Chula Vista, CA, resulted in the potential compromise of the protected health information (PHI) of a lot of its customers. Solara Medical discovered suspicious activity in […]
A misconfigured AWS S3 storage bucket owned by Sunshine Behavioral Health, LLC, a network of drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation centers based in San Juan Capistrano, CA resulted in the compromise of sensitive patient data. […]
Main Street Clinical Associates, PA. located in Durham, NC has notified a number of its patients regarding the potential compromise of some of their protected health information (PHI) because of the stolen devices from its […]
A phishing attack at Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics, Oregon on July 31, 2019 resulted in the access of some employees’ email accounts by an unauthorized person. The healthcare provider detected the breach within a […]
A new survey was done to know the expense connected with healthcare data breaches, the magnitude of the healthcare community attacked, and what proportion of the attacks become successful. The Black Book Market Research performed […]
Utah Valley Eye Center based in Provo, UT sent breach notification letters to patients concerning an unauthorized person that potentially accessed some of their personal information as a result of its scheduling reminder web portal’s […]
A wrong configuration of the billing program of Texas Health Resources caused the impermissible disclosure of the health information of 82,577 of its patients. Texas Health Resources is one of the United States’ major faith-based […]
Microsoft reported in May 2019 something about the BlueKeep exploit. It is a CVE-2019-0708 vulnerability, which is a serious remote code execution flaw identified in Windows Remote Desktop Services. The cybersecurity community anticipated the creation […]
The Guidance Center (TGC) in Avalon in California and Long Beach, Compton, San Pedro, a not-for-profit mental health care services provider to deprived kids and their families, had spotted a security breach in its digital […]
The HHS updated its HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool with a number of new features requested by users to enhance usability. The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in cooperation […]
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