Month: December 2022

November had 31% fewer healthcare data breaches reported compared to October 2022. November had a total of 49 breaches involving 500 and up records, which is below the 58 breaches per month 12-month average. In […]

Plaintiffs in a consolidated class action lawsuit against Meta lately sought an injunction versus Meta to make the company discontinue accumulating and transmitting information gathered from the sites of healthcare companies via Meta Pixel tracking […]

Midwest Orthopaedic Consultants based in Illinois has reported that unauthorized persons accessed its computer system and encrypted files using ransomware. The healthcare provider detected the cyberattack on September 29, 2022, and took steps right away […]

Morley Companies has decided to resolve a class action lawsuit sent in on behalf of persons impacted by a big data breach that happened on or about August 1, 2022. Funding of $4.3 million was […]

Avem Health Partners based in Oklahoma City provides healthcare companies with administrative and technology services. It recently began informing its healthcare clients regarding a data breach that happened at 365 Data Centers, its vendor. 365 […]

An ex-nurse working at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Buffalo, NY was sentenced to serve 37 months in jail for tinkering with and stealing controlled prescription drugs meant for patients with cancer. […]

Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Citrix Gateway users are advised to see and ensure that their systems aren’t prone to a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that a highly capable Chinese advanced persistent […]

Occupational health services provider, Work Health Solutions based in San Jose, CA, has reported the exposure and potential theft of the protected health information (PHI) of 13,157 persons by unauthorized people who got access to […]

The private data of people visiting telehealth websites is being disclosed to big tech firms without the consent of the user because of the tracking code snippets added to websites, based on a recent review […]

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported an arrangement with a Californian dental practice to settle multiple HIPAA violations associated with a complaint concerning impermissible disclosures of protected health information (PHI) on Yelp, an […]

San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital based in California and Receivables Performance Management based in Washington recently reported data breaches. The latter’s data breach has impacted more than 3.7 million persons. Receivables Performance Management Receivables Performance Management […]

Non-profit healthcare system Conway Regional Medical Center located in north central Arkansas has offered to pay $295,000 to settle a class action lawsuit that was submitted for people impacted by a 2019 data breach. The […]

Mobile health applications creators may need to comply with certain government legislation such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), FTC Health Breach Notification Rule, Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FD&C Act), FTC […]

Multiple class action lawsuits were filed against Empress EMS, the New York ambulance service, because of a ransomware attack that was discovered on July 14, 2022. The group responsible for the attack was the Hive […]

San Juan Regional Medical Center (SJRMC) based in Farmington, New Mexico, has presented a settlement to take care of a class action lawsuit associated with a data breach in September 2020 that impacted 68,792 individuals. […]

LastPass has announced that hackers acquired access to a third-party cloud storage solution that held customer information, though there was no compromise of user passwords. The hacking incident is associated with the data breach that […]

A team of 10 state Attorney Generals lately sent a letter to Apple CEO, Tim Cook, telling the company to use tougher privacy and security settings for programs accessible via the Apple App Store that […]

There was a small decrease in ransomware attacks in Q3, but it is too soon to say whether that decreasing trend will go on. Despite the decrease in attacks, ransomware continues to be the main […]

563,000 Patients and Health Plan Members Affected by Hacking and IT Incidents Consulting company Health Care Management Solutions LLC based in West Virginia, which provides healthcare for vulnerable individuals including veterans, has just submitted a […]