Month: May 2020

The HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a tactical plan for monitoring the COVID-19 response and recovery work of the Department of Health and Human Services. OIG is going to evaluate how good […]

Mat-Su Surgical Associates based in Palmer, AK made an announcement that it encountered a ransomware attack in March. The staff discovered the attack on March 16 after being locked out of the computer systems because […]

Four Senators wrote to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) because of the latest notification telling COVID-19 research organizations that hackers associated with China are doing […]

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups keep on targeting healthcare companies, research groups, pharmaceutical firms, and other organizations actively helping during the COVID-19 crisis. That is why, the United Kingdom and the United States cybersecurity authorities […]

In April 2020, 37 healthcare data breaches involving at least 500 records were reported That number is only one more than the number of breaches in March and is still lower than the average number […]

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is dealing with lawsuits regarding two privacy breaches which involved employees accessing the healthcare records of patients with no permission. The legal action was filed on behalf of a mom […]

Mille Lacs Health System based in Onamia, Mn has suffered a phishing attack that possibly exposed more than 10,000 patients’ protected health information (PHI). A number of employees of Mille Lacs Health System got phishing […]

Two privacy bills were presented in relation to the COVID-19 contact tracing apps which Congress is currently considering. Republican and Democratic lawmakers introduced contending bills that have several common ground and hope to accomplish the […]

Companies that encounter a ransomware attack might be enticed to pay the ransom demand to minimize downtime and expenses on recovery, however a Sophos survey indicates companies that pay the ransom in reality turn out […]

Management and Network Services (MNS), LLC based in Dublin, OH provides post-acute healthcare companies with administrative support services. The email accounts of some MNS employees were found to have been compromised. MNS explained in a […]

Organizations engaged in researching SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 received warning that hackers associated with the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) are targeting their organizations, consequently, they need to take steps to safeguard their systems from any […]

Saint Francis Healthcare Partners in Connecticut is informing 38,529 patients about the potential compromise of some of their protected health information (PHI) due to a sophisticated cybersecurity incident that permitted an unauthorized person to access […]

Business email compromise scammers from Nigeria were found targeting COVID-19 research institutions, pandemic response agencies, and government healthcare organizations to get falsified wire transfer payments and install malware. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 team researchers […]

COVID-19 has compelled a lot of organizations to quickly implement a work from home scheme for employees, which resulted in new possibilities for cybercriminals to execute attacks. Cyberattacks on remote employees have grown considerably at […]

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance to remind healthcare providers that under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the media and film crews are not allowed to access healthcare facilities where patients’ protected health […]

A number of healthcare companies were impacted by a strange data breach at STAT Informatics Solutions, LLC based in Waupaca, WI. STAT provides a number of healthcare companies with secure medical records services which include […]

The Department of Health and Human Services is slow in responding to the high priority recommendations of the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Of the 54 high priority recommendations specified in a GAO report in March […]

The number of reported healthcare data breaches decreased in March 2020 by 7.69%. The number of breached records also decreased by 45.88%. In March, there were 36 healthcare data breaches involving 500 and up records […]