Month: October 2022

A Californian appellate court has just announced the lower court’s decision to reject class-action status for a legal action filed against a healthcare provider in California because of an insider data breach that impacted 5,485 […]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU of RI) is filing a lawsuit against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and UnitedHealthcare New England (UHC) because of a data breach in August […]

The U.S. government is working on enhancing critical infrastructure cybersecurity. The White House has chosen the healthcare, communications, and water sectors as the next priority areas. The White House is about to release new guidance […]

First, Novant Health stated that the protected health information (PHI) of 1.36 million individuals was transmitted to Meta. Now, Advocate Aurora Health is the second to confirm that it also put the Meta Pixel tracking […]

VisionWeb Holdings based in Austin, TX, a company providing the eye care industry with Internet-delivered software solutions for enhancing practice efficiency, lately submitted a data breach report to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights indicating […]

Cybercriminals extensively target the healthcare industry in order to access healthcare networks for a variety of nefarious uses. Why are healthcare records remarkably valuable to criminals? Hackers do a lot to gain access to healthcare […]

Radiology Associates of Albuquerque (also known as RAA Imaging/Advanced Imaging, LLC) has lately informed patients about the theft of some of their protected health information (PHI) in a cyberattack that was discovered over A year […]

Aesthetic Dermatology Associates based in Pennsylvania has lately confirmed that unauthorized individuals accessed its network and possibly viewed and/or obtained files that contain the personal data and protected health information (PHI) of 33,793 present and […]

United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley (UNC) has offered a settlement deal to take care of a class action lawsuit filed for the sake of patients impacted by its Vice Society ransomware attack […]

Cardiac Imaging Associates based in Los Angeles, CA, has found out that an unauthorized person got access to the email account of an employee. The healthcare provider discovered the incident in April 2022, and took […]

Cytometry Specialists, Inc., conducting business as CSI Laboratories based in Alpharetta, GA, has lately reported that an unauthorized person accessed the email account of a worker and could have seen or acquired the protected health […]

CommonSpirit Health is dealing with a data security incident that has impacted a lot of its healthcare services. Based on an October 4, 2022 statement released by the health system, IT systems were inaccessible online […]

Mon Health is dealing with a class action lawsuit associated with a hacking incident that enabled unauthorized persons to acquire access to its system for 11 days in December 2021. According to Mon Health, it […]

Microsoft was cautioned about the exploitation in the wild of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server. It has discussed mitigations prior to the patching of the vulnerabilities. The two vulnerabilities are being linked together […]