The DHS’ Cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Agency has created a website offering information about the current cyber activities of the advanced persistent threat (APT) gang behind the compromise of the SolarWinds Orion software supply chain. […]
The number of healthcare data breaches reported dropped again last November; however, take note that the number of reported breaches in October 2020 was thrice the average monthly number mostly because of the ransomware attack […]
Meharry Medical College located in Nashville, TN found an email account breach that possibly allowed unauthorized persons to get access or steal the protected health information (PHI) of up to 20,983 patients. Meharry Medical College […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has publicized its 2016-2017 HIPAA Audits Industry Report, featuring areas where HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates are complying or unable to abide with […]
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued final guidance for healthcare delivery companies on securing the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) ecosystem. PACS […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a private industry notice regarding the increasing DoppelPaymer ransomware activity and the threat actors’ change in strategy to compel victims into paying the ransom. DoppelPaymer ransomware first […]
Cedar Springs Hospital based in Colorado Springs, CO is informing some patients regarding the loss of a portable storage unit that had their protected health information (PHI) last October 2020. The hospital gave a copy […]
Twitter is penalized with €450,000 ($544,600) for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland issued the fine in connection with Twitter’s privacy breach report to the DPC […]
The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a new bill (HR 7988), which tries to change the HITECH Act to necessitate the Department of Health and Human Services to identify whether or not HIPAA-covered entities […]
A phishing attack on Tufts Health Plan resulted in the compromise of the protected health information (PHI) of 60,545 members’ of EyeMed, a vision benefits management company. EyeMed uncovered the phishing attack on July 1, […]
GBMC HealthCare located in Towson, MD reported a ransomware attack that happened on December 6, 2020 causing the taking down of its computer network. The healthcare company currently implements EHR downtime protocols while it controls […]
Dental Care Alliance, LLC based in Sarasota, FL, a dental support provider with more than 320 affiliated dental practices in 20 states, was hacked and potentially compromising the protected health information (PHI) of over a […]
Rave Mobile Safety has announced a COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Option that will enable public health agencies to determine persons who must have priority vaccination, customize alerts to these individuals, provide reminders for second vaccinations, and […]
Montefiore Medical Center and Mercy Health have reported insider data breaches in the past few days. In both breaches, an employee accessed patient information even if there was no valid work reason for doing so. […]
Kalispell Regional Healthcare based in Montana has offered a $4.2 million settlement deal to take care of a lawsuit filed on behalf of victims associated with a data breach that was reported in October 2019. […]
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Israel talked about a potential bioterrorist attack that could jeopardize the synthetic DNA supply chain. DNA synthesis providers may be misled into creating unsafe DNA sequences, skipping present security controls, […]
Four vulnerabilities were identified in the OpenClinic software, the most critical of which could possibly permit unauthorized people to get around authentication and access protected health information (PHI). A lot of private clinics, hospitals, and […]
University of Minnesota Physicians recently experienced a phishing attack that permitted unauthorized people to obtain access to two workers’ email accounts. One email account was accessible from January 30 to January 31, 2020 and the […]
AspenPointe based in Colorado Springs, a provider of mental health and behavioral health services, has reported a cyberattack in September 2020 that resulted in the potential compromise of patient information. Because of the attack, the […]
A recent private industry alert from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that threat actors that use Ragnar Locker ransomware have increased their attacks and have been choosing businesses and organizations in different sectors […]
OCR imposed more financial penalties on HIPAA covered entities and business associates this 2020 than any year since OCR got authorized by the HIPAA Enforcement Rule to issue financial penalties on non-complying entities. As of […]
The number of reported data breaches to OCR for October is well above average. It was 33.68% less than September’s with 63 reported breaches involving 500 or more records, but it was still 41.82% above […]
The biggest eyewear business in the world, Luxottica, had a cyberattack that affected several websites managed by the company. Luxottica is the owner of the popular eyewear brands Persol, Ray-Ban, and Oakley. It produces designer […]
Office 365 users have been cautioned regarding a continuous phishing campaign that collects user credentials. The attackers utilize sophisticated strategies to circumvent email security defenses and social engineering techniques to trick company personnel into going […]
According to Microsoft, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups in North Korea and Russia are directing attacks on companies engaged in COVID-19 research and vaccine development. Three APT groups have targeted six big pharmaceutical companies and […]
A phishing attack affected the Department of Human Services, North Dakota Department of Health, Cavalier County Health District, and other state departments that resulted in the compromise of employee email accounts from November 23 to […]
A ransomware attack on First Impressions Orthodontics, a Professional Dental Alliance of Connecticut PLLC’s subsidiary, occurred on September 28, 2020 that resulted in the potential compromise of the protected health information (PHI) of 23,000 patients. […]
The BD Alaris PC Unit identified a medium severity vulnerability that could be exploited to bring about a denial of service attack and a drop in wireless capacity. Medigate discovered the vulnerability and reported it […]
The TrickBot botnet is being used to conduct a new phishing campaign that delivers the Buer loader and Bazar backdoor malware. Researchers at Area 1 Security detected the campaign that has been operating since early […]
Ransom Demands Continue to Increase The Coverware Quarterly Ransomware report for Q3 2020 reveals that the average ransom demand progressively increased during the last 8 quarters, though the quarterly growth was more significant every quarter […]
Coveware has published its Quarterly Ransomware report for the third quarter of 2020 and featured the hottest ransomware attack developments. The report notes that data exfiltration before deploying the ransomware remains a well-liked tactic. About […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights just issued the 10th financial penalty covered by the HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative. Riverside Psychiatric Medical Group based in California has […]
An unauthorized person had accessed the email account of an employee of Centerstone, which provides mental health and substance use disorder treatment services in Illinois, Indiana, Florida and Tennessee. Centerstone detected strange activity in the […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the United Kingdom’s data protection authority, has enforced a £18.4 million ($23.8 million) financial fine on Marriott International for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The ICO had […]
computer systems remained offline, it is still providing patient care. The hospital’s emergency and urgent care departments are open and are fully operational. Most scheduled elective procedures will proceed as scheduled. Right now, while the […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have given an advisory regarding elevated Ryuk ransomware activity directed at the public […]
Aetna Life Insurance Company and the associated covered entity (Aetna) has decided to resolve several potential HIPAA violations that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found in the course […]
On October 11, 2020, Sonoma Valley Hospital based in California encountered a computer security breach that resulted in the shutdown of its computer systems, hence “a significant downtime event” occurred. The hospital went ahead with […]
LuxSci, a provider of HIPAA-compliant email communications services based in Massachusetts, has reported that it has gotten HITRUST CSF Certification. The HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) is an all-inclusive, certifiable platform for companies that generate, […]
Before September, the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights only issued three financial penalties on covered entities and business associates over HIPAA violations. Yet, in September, there was a squall of notices regarding HIPAA settlements when […]
September is awful in terms of data breaches. HIPAA-covered entities and business associates reported 95 data breaches involving at least 500 records. The increase in breaches is 156.75% compared to last August 2020. There wasn’t […]
The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) just recently issued a security warning urging companies to patch a critical remote code execution vulnerability present in Microsoft SharePoint. There is also an advisory from the DHS […]
On October 2020 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft launched a patch to fix a critical remove code execution vulnerability identified in the Microsoft Windows Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/IP stack. The vulnerability is caused by the way TCP/IP […]
Silent Librarian, also known as Cobalt Dickens and TA407, centered in Iran has begun again spear-phishing attacks on colleges in America and all over the world. Since 2013, the hacking group has been executing attacks […]
Universal Health Services has affirmed that its 250 hospitals in the USA are operational and hoping to catch a person thought to be behind the ransomware attack that shut down its systems for three weeks. […]
eResearchTechnology in Philadelphia is a company marketing software for clinical trials, for instance, the clinical trials relating to Covid-19 vaccines. The company experienced a ransomware attack last September 20, 2020 that affected several clients, including […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint alert about advanced persistent hackers stringing exploits for a number of vulnerabilities in cyberattacks directed at federal and […]
Community Health Systems located in Franklin, TN, and its subsidiary CHSPCS LLC agreed to settle a multi-state action with 28 state attorneys general by paying out $5 M. An investigation directed by Tennessee Attorney General […]
The 12th HIPAA penalty of 2020 has been reported by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). It is the 8th under the HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative since […]
The chiropractor Accents on Health based in Lone Tree, CO encountered a ransomware attack on August 5, 2020 that saw the encryption of information kept on its computer systems. Cybersecurity forensics experts looked into the […]
A healthcare employee who was charged with violation of patient privacy and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules was cleared of any violation after the federal law enforcement’s investigation. The said employee […]
On September 30, 2020, Blackbaud submitted a Form 8-K with the SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) that gave more details on the ransomware attack encountered by the company in May 2020. Blackbaud stated that […]
Oaklawn Hospital located in Marshall, MI, has begun informing 26,861 patients regarding a potential compromise of their personal and medical data. It is not clear when the hospital detected the breach, however, the forensic investigation […]
Health insurer Anthem Inc. based in Indianapolis, IN has settled its multi-state actions filed by state attorneys general in relation to its 2014 78.8 million record data breach. One settlement deal for $39.5 million was […]
Alameda Health System (AHS) based in Alameda, CA, an inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and wellness services provider around the East Bay area, became aware that an unauthorized individual had briefly gained access to an employee’s email […]
Universal Health Services (UHS) located in King of Prussia, PA has experienced a big security breach that resulted in the inaccessibility of its IT systems. The health system has got at least 400 healthcare facilities […]
People affected by the recent data breaches that occurred at Blackbaud and Assured Imaging took legal action for the compromise and theft of their personal data and protected health information (PHI). Several Lawsuits Filed in […]
stealing credentials from several applications and data resources, such as Firefox, Safari, and Chrome web browsers. It likewise rips off credentials utilized for email accounts, sFTP and FTP clients. The malware can be used to […]
Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York has dismissed a worker due to the supposed theft of the protected health information PHI of around 4,000 patients. Montefiore learned about the possible internal data breach in […]
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights received 37 reports of healthcare data breaches involving 500 or more records in August 2020. The number of breaches continued to be rather constant month-over-month, however, breached records in […]
There are 5 vulnerabilities with low- to medium-severity discovered in the Philips Clinical Collaboration Platform (Vue PACS). An attacker could exploit the vulnerability and influence an authorized user to perform unauthorized activities or disclose data […]
A recent joint cybersecurity alert published by the Cybersecurity Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that a hacking group connected to the Iranian government was detected exploiting […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the newly released version of its tool for Security Risk Assessment (SRA). The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology […]
HealthAlliance Hospital and its health record management vendor, Ciox Health, are facing a lawsuit for refusing to give a widow the medical records of her deceased husband. In October 2020, the husband of Sherry Russell, […]
Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA is one of the healthcare companies that lately confirmed the impact of the Blackbaud ransomware attack on its company. The information contained in a backup donor database included […]
A Federal judge dismissed a potential class-action lawsuit that was filed in June 2019 against UChicago Medicine, the University of Chicago, and Google. The lawsuit was a response to an alleged breach of HIPAA Rules […]
The Baton Rouge Clinic located in Louisiana suffered a cyberattack at the beginning of July that made its email and phone system inaccessible and constrained its laboratory and radiology services. The ransomware attack caused systems […]
The National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM) is being observed this September 2020 for the second time. The whole month, resources are being made accessible to point out the value of discovering, blocking, and reporting […]
Recently, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the eHealth Initiative & Foundation (eHI) issued a draft of a consumer privacy framework for health data to deal with the loopholes in legal protections for […]
There is a growing number of healthcare providers that are confirmed to have experienced a data breach as a result of the Blackbaud ransomware attack. Four more healthcare providers sent breach notification reports in the […]
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has reported the potential exposure of the personal data of persons who donated to Northwestern Memorial HealthCare in the past due to a Blackbaud ransomware attack fairly recently. An unauthorized man or […]
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. is going to pay $500,000 as a financial penalty to bring to an end a case against Viztek LLC, its ex-subsidiary, to take care of False Claims Act violations in […]
The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, the American College of Radiology, and the Radiological Society of North America published an advisory with regards to online medical presentations and the possibility of inadvertent exposure of […]
The Secretary Alex Azar of the HHS has a public health emergency declared in the states of Texas and Louisiana because of Hurricane Laura, and in California because of the continuing wildfires. HIPAA Rules continue […]
In 2019, Heritage Valley Health System in Beaver, PA filed a case against Nuance Communications in relation to the 2017 NotPetya malware attack. The case was dismissed by a federal judge in the US District […]
A cyberattack on Dynasplint Systems in Severna Park, MD resulted in the potential access or theft of personal and protected health information (PHI). The company manufactures proprietary stretching gadgets for enhancing joint motion. The security […]
In June 2020, the web servers of Netsential based in Houston, TX was hacked resulting in the theft of roughly 270 gigabytes of information. The hacking group Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) published the stolen […]
A group of researchers from Harvard University investigated the technologies being used in COVID-19 home monitoring. A variety of technologies were created to cut down the possibility of being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and diagnose signs […]
There were two critical vulnerabilities discovered in XenMobile Server / Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM). An unauthenticated attacker may exploit the vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2020-8208 and CVE-2020-8209 to get access to the credentials of a domain […]
Technology and security consultant Jeremiah Fowler announced that the personal and health information of about 2.5 million patients were exposed on the internet. On July 7, 2020, two folders that contain the information were found […]
July had a big decrease in the amount of data breach reports involving at least 500 healthcare records. July had 36 data breach reports, which was 30.8% month-over-month less than June’s 52 breach reports. But […]
A database that contains the personal data of over 3.1 million patients was exposed on the internet and was eventually wiped out by the Meow bot. A security researcher named Volodymyr ‘Bob’ Diachenko found the […]
Behavioral Health Network (BHN), the biggest provider of behavioral health service in Western Massachusetts, has reported a malware attack on its computer systems which made its files inaccessible. BHN discovered the security breach on May […]
A phishing attack on the University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, Inc. (FPI) potentially resulted in the access of the protected health information (PHI) of the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) patients by unauthorized people. […]
A ransomware attack on Owens Ear Center based in Fort Worth, Texas happened on May 28, 2020 that caused encryption of patient information. The encrypted device comprised patients’ healthcare records that enclosed data like names, […]
The healthcare system FHN based in Freeport, IL is sending notifications to some patients that an unauthorized individual has potentially accessed several employees’ email accounts from February 12 to February 13, 2020 resulting in the […]
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a high priority advisory to warn businesses of the threat of cyberattacks that use the Taidoor malware, which is a remote access Trojan […]
One more pharmacy chain made an announcement that looters stole the protected health information (PHI) of some of its customers in late May during a time of civil unrest. Between May 27 to May 30, […]
The clear decline in healthcare data breaches observed in May turned out to be temporary, with June having a big increase in data breaches. June had 52 breach reports submitted by HIPAA covered entities as […]
There was a vulnerability discovered in the Philips DreamMapper software program, which is a mobile application used to keep track of and take care of sleep apnea. The application is not for providing treatment to […]
A significant amount of proof shows that nation-state hacking groups are concentrating on attacking institutions engaged in COVID-19 study and vaccine development to steal data for the research programs in their own countries. In the […]
This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a (TLP:WHITE) FLASH advisory subsequent to a rise in attacks that involve the NetWalker ransomware. NetWalker is a fairly new ransomware risk that was identified in […]
CVS Pharmacy is notifying some patients about the loss of some of their private data and protected health information (PHI) after a number of incidents took place at its pharmacies from May 27, 2020 to […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted two Chinese nationals for hacking US firms and government institutions to steal sensitive data, which include COVID-19 research information. Allegedly, the hackers were operating under the command of […]
Cybercriminals are exploiting the latest integrated network procedures to do increased damaging DDoS attacks on US systems. Three network procedures were created to be used in devices like mobile phones, IoT devices nd Macs, which […]
The Federal judge dismissed the lawsuit filed versus Sarrell Regional Dental Center for Public Health Inc. because of a ransomware attack in July 2019 as a result of insufficient standing. Sarrell had recovered from the […]
The cybersecurity company Emsisoft based in New Zealand has published its ransomware statistics for 2020 that show there were at least 41 successful ransomware attacks on hospitals and other healthcare providers in the first half […]
The CVSS v3 base rating of vulnerability CVE-2019-5024 is 7.6 out of 10. This vulnerability was observed in Capsule Technologies SmartLinx Neuron 2 medical data collection devices using software program version 6.9.1. SmartLinx Neuron 2 […]
Lorien Health Services based in Ellicott City, MD, which manages 9 assisted living facilities throughout Maryland had encountered a ransomware attack on June 6, 2020. Third-party cybersecurity specialists assisted with the investigation to ascertain whether […]
The radiology practice Quantum Imaging and Therapeutic Associates in Pennsylvania announced that there were reports received regarding the non-physician personnel who allegedly shared with a Facebook group an x-ray photo of a male patient’s genitalia. […]
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