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Month: June 2020

Georgia Hospital Accused of Falsification of COVID-19 Test Results Suspends Employees Over Suspected HIPAA Breach

June 26, 2020 Christine Garcia

Landmark Hospital of Athens based in Georgia suspended three staff members who are alleged of viewing, copying or exposing patient records. The likely HIPAA breach can be associated to a legal case that four nursing […]

51,000 Patients’ PHI Exposed Due to Breaches at American Medical Technologies and Kentuckiana Regional Planning & Development Agency

June 25, 2020 Christine Garcia

American Medical Technologies based in Irvine, CA, a provider of wound care solutions and medical supplies, reported that an unauthorized person accessed the email account of an employee and most likely viewed and copied the […]

Breaches Reported by Sunrise Treatment Center, Gateway Health and Hanger Clinic

June 24, 2020 Christine Garcia

Sunrise Treatment Center located in Cincinnati, OH is notifying 3,660 patients about the potential unauthorized access of some of their protected health information (PHI) contained in an employee’s email account. The breach happened on February […]

Senate HELP Committee Looks at the Possibility of Making Changes to Telehealth Policies Permanent

June 22, 2020 Christine Garcia

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is thinking about what must be retained of the 31 latest changes to telehealth policies once the COVID-19 national public health crisis ends. The interim modifications […]

NAAG Asks Apple and Google to Further Secure the Privacy of End users of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

June 19, 2020 Christine Garcia

On June 16, 2020, The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) sent a letter to Apple and Google to communicate issues regarding consumer privacy connected to COVID-19 contact tracing along with exposure notification programs. NAAG […]

Hundreds of Millions of Connected Devices Affected By Exploitable ‘Ripple20’ RCE TCP/IP Flaws

June 18, 2020 Christine Garcia

There were 19 zero-day vulnerabilities identified in the TCP/IP communication software library that Treck Inc. developed. Innumerable connected devices throughout practically all industry sectors, which include healthcare, were affected. Treck is a company based in […]

The University of Utah Health Experiences Third Phishing Attack This Year

June 17, 2020 Christine Garcia

The University of Utah Health encountered another phishing attack that led to the exposure of the protected health information (PHI) of 2,700 patients. For the third time this year, the University of Utah had a […]

Breaches at Cano Health and the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services

June 16, 2020 Christine Garcia

Cano Health, a population health management company and healthcare provider based in Florida, discovered that an unauthorized person accessed the email accounts of three employees by setting up a mail forwarder the email accounts and […]

Magic Johnson and Channel All-Stars Speak in this Virtual MSP Event

June 12, 2020 Christine Garcia

There is an upcoming virtual event to be hosted on June 23, 2020 to assist managed service providers (MSPs) in facing the obstacles of operations during these difficult times. COVID-19 has compelled companies in all […]

Proof of Concept Exploit Launched for Critical SMBGhost SMBv3 Vulnerability in Windows 10

June 11, 2020 Christine Garcia

A warning issued by the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) stated that there is a functional proof of concept (PoC) exploit associated with a critical remote code execution vulnerability identified in the Microsoft […]

PHI Exposed Due to Everett & Hurite Ophthalmic Association and Castro Valley Health Breaches

June 10, 2020 Christine Garcia

The Everett & Hurite Ophthalmic Association (EHOA) refers to a group of ophthalmology experts offering their services in Pittsburgh & Warrendale, PA. EHOA discovered an unauthorized person had accessed the email account of an employee […]

Two Recent Cyberattacks Resulted in the Theft of $107,000 from Kentucky Employees’ Health Plan Members

June 9, 2020 Christine Garcia

The Commonwealth of Kentucky Personnel Cabinet has reported two data breaches that happened from late April to Early May. Because of the attacks, the protected health information (PHI) of about 1,000 members of the Kentucky […]

St Joseph Health System Reports the Improper Disposal of Patient Records by Medical Record Storage Facility

June 8, 2020 Christine Garcia

St Joseph Health System in North Central Indiana is sending notifications to patients regarding the exposure of some of their protected health information (PHI) due to unauthorized viewing. The breach did not occur at St […]

Two Healthcare Provider Employees Fired Due to Impermissible Disclosure of PHI

June 4, 2020 Christine Garcia

Healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente based in Oakland, CA discovered that a former staff gained access to the radiology information of many patients without permission for a period of 8 years. Kaiser Permanente knew about the […]

Top 10 List of Exploited Vulnerabilities According to FBI and CISA

June 2, 2020 Christine Garcia

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency lately made a joint public service announcement explaining the 2016 to 2019 top 10 most exploited vulnerabilities. Advanced nation state hackers exploit these vulnerabilities to target […]

Russian Sandworm Group Targets Exim Mail Servers

June 1, 2020 Christine Garcia

A Russian hacking gang referred to as Sandworm (Fancy Bear) is exploiting an Exim Mail Transfer Agent vulnerability. The flaw, labeled as CVE-2019-10149, is a remote code execution vulnerability that was brought in in Exim […]

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