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Month: June 2022

MCG Health Faces Multiple Class Action Lawsuits Over Data Breach

June 30, 2022 Site Editor

Hearst Health subsidiary, MCG Health based in Seattle, is facing multiple class-action lawsuits due to a data breach that impacted approximately 10 healthcare companies such as Lenoir Health Care, Indiana University Health, Jefferson County Health […]

Podium Receives HIPAA Seal of Compliance

June 29, 2022 Site Editor

The software-as-a-Service company Podium based in Lehi, UT offering business text messaging services for local companies has been certified as HIPAA compliant by Compliancy Group. Podium is redefining how patients connect with their local healthcare […]

Data Breach Reported by Acorda Therapeutics, TridentCare, and Avamere Health Services

June 28, 2022 Site Editor

Acorda Therapeutics Reports Email Account Breach The biotechnology firm Acorda Therapeutics based in Ardsley, NY reported that an unauthorized third party acquired access to its email system and possibly viewed email messages and file attachments […]

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Paid $450,000 to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit

June 24, 2022 Site Editor

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has made the decision to negotiate a class action data breach lawsuit. It will set aside $450,000 to pay for claims from persons who have had losses because of the […]

PHI Exposed Due to Hacking Incidents in 3 HIPAA-Regulated Entities

June 23, 2022 Site Editor

PHI of Approximately 69,000 Persons Compromised in Comstar Hacking Incident Comstar based in Rowley, MA provides ambulance invoicing, collection, ePCR Hosting, and client/patient services. It found out that an unauthorized third-party acquired access to selected […]

Data Breaches at Central Florida Inpatient Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital

June 22, 2022 Site Editor

Recently, Central Florida Inpatient Medicine (CFIM) based in Lake Mary, FL has found that an unauthorized person has accessed the email account of a staff member. The compromised emails and file attachments may contain the […]

Bill Wishes to Prohibit Data Brokers from Selling Health and Location Data

June 21, 2022 Site Editor

A new bill has been launched by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that wishes to prohibit data brokers from selling the health and location information of Americans. The bill called The following senators co-sponsored the Health […]

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Baptist Health Report Data Breach

June 17, 2022 Site Editor

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has announced the compromise of the protected health information (PHI) of 1,290,104 patients due to a data breach that occurred at Eye Care Leaders, its electronic medical record provider. […]

Shields Health Care Group Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over 2 Million-Record Data Breach

June 16, 2022 Site Editor

Shields Health Care Group is facing a class-action lawsuit over the 2 million-record data breach it recently announced. This is the largest healthcare data breach ever reported for this year. Shields Health Care Group is […]

Yuma Regional Medical Center Ransomware Attack Impacts 700,000 Patients

June 15, 2022 Site Editor

Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) based in Arizona has stated that it suffered a ransomware attack in April. The threat actors obtained the protected health information (PHI) of around 700,000 current and past patients. Based […]

ScribeMedics LLC Receives the HIPAA Seal of Compliance Award

June 14, 2022 Site Editor

ScribeMedics LLC is a service provider of real-time, remote, medical transcription, EHR charting, virtual back office, and medical record review. Compliancy Group recently certified ScribeMedics LLC that it has fully complied with the regulatory requirements […]

Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Rose by 94% in 2021

June 10, 2022 Site Editor

The 2022 State of Ransomware Report published by cybersecurity firm Sophos revealed that ransomware attacks on healthcare providers increased by 94% year over year. The report based its information on a worldwide survey participated by […]

Atlassian Releases Patch for Maximum Severity Extensively Exploited Vulnerability in Confluence Server and Data Center

June 9, 2022 Site Editor

Atlassian has announced a patch to correct a critical zero-day vulnerability that impacts all supported versions of Confluence Server and Data Center. The vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2022-26134 has a maximum CVSS severity score […]

Unofficial Patch Released for DogWalk Zero-day Windows MSDT Vulnerability

June 8, 2022 Site Editor

There is a new zero-day vulnerability discovered that impacts a Windows tool like Follina. Although there’s no information if the vulnerability was exploited in the wild, it is possible to exploit it. The recent attention […]

Healthcare Companies Cautioned About Critical Vulnerabilities Identified in Illumina Devices

June 7, 2022 Site Editor

Five vulnerabilities were discovered in the Illumina Local Run Manager (LRM), which is utilized by Illumina Researcher Use Only (ROU) instruments and Illumina In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) devices. The impacted instruments are employed for clinical […]

Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Injured Workers Pharmacy Because of Email Account Breach

June 3, 2022 Site Editor

The law firm Morgan & Morgan filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Injured Workers Pharmacy (IWP) in association with a breach of the personal records of […]

New York Judge Drops Class Action PACS Data Breach Case for Insufficient Standing

June 2, 2022 Site Editor

A New York Federal Judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against Alliance HealthCare Services and NorthEast Radiology PC because of a data breach that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of above 1.2 million people […]

BJC HealthCare and Cooper University Health Care Report Email Account Breach

June 1, 2022 Site Editor

BJC HealthCare, a not-for-profit healthcare company located in St. Louis, MO, has begun informing a number of patients that an unauthorized individual accessed some of their protected health information (PHI) that was kept in email […]

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