San Andreas Regional Center located in San Jose, CA has begun informing patients regarding the potential compromise of their PHI in a ransomware attack in July 2021. On July 5, its systems and servers were […]
Metro Infectious Disease Consultants is informing 171,740 patients concerning an email security incident uncovered on June 24, 2021. An unauthorized person had acquired access to some employees’ email accounts which included the protected health information […]
HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates are still reporting big numbers of healthcare data breaches. July had 70 reported data breaches involving at least 500 records, which means having 2 or more data breaches reported […]
South Florida Community Care Plan has learned that an ex-employee mailed to a personal email account the internal documents that contain the protected health information (PHI) of plan members. The breach was identified on June […]
St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) hospital system located in Savannah, GA had been attacked by ransomware on June 17, 2021 at approximately 4 a.m. After becoming aware of the suspicious activity in its system, SJ/C quickly worked […]
At the beginning of August, a hacker contacted Dissent of DataBreaches.net and professed to have acquired access to the systems of an HVAC vendor and the systems of its customers, such as Boston Children’s Hospital. […]
The personal information of 750,000 Hoosiers gathered together with a COVID-19 contact tracing survey performed by the Indiana Department of Health was exposed on the internet and downloaded by an organization not allowed to get […]
Ransomware attacks on hospitals can result in massive financial deficits, just like what the Ryuk ransomware attack did on Universal Health Services. UHS is one of the biggest healthcare companies in America and runs 26 […]
USA Waste-Management Resources, LLC has begun informing a number of employees, ex-employees, and dependents covered by its self-managed health plan regarding the potential compromise of some of their personal data and protected health information (PHI) […]
The email accounts of some employees of Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (CHKD) based in Norfolk, VA were compromised in a phishing attack. CHKD stated in its August 10, 2021 breach notification that the […]
The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) published a recent study that sought to determine the connection of cybersecurity risk ratings to healthcare data breaches. The study was carried out utilizing hospital cybersecurity […]
NCH Corporation based in Irving, TX, a global marketer of maintenance products, submitted a report concerning an alleged ransomware attack. The company detected suspicious network activity inside its networks on March 5, 2021, that made […]
Ransomware attacks have gone up considerably in the last 12 months, nevertheless, phishing attacks still bring about problems for companies, based on a recent survey done by Arlington Research together with security company Egress. Nearly […]
Nine critical vulnerabilities were found in the Swisslog Healthcare Translogic Pneumatic Tube System (PTS) stations’ Nexus Control Panel, which are utilized in over 80% of big hospitals in the U.S.A. Pneumatic tube systems are employed […]
Kubernetes is a well-known open-source cloud tool for deploying and running containerized applications. Lately, there were a number of security breaches that allowed hackers to get access to badly secured Kubernetes accounts to steal sensitive […]
Harris County in Texas has uncovered that the personal and health information (PHI) of thousands of people were exposed on the internet. It is likely that unauthorized individuals may have accessed this data. Under Harris […]
The U.S. Department of Justice reported that a federal court in the Eastern District of Texas has sentenced a Texas lady to serve 30 months in federal prison for committing a conspiracy to acquire protected […]
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