Month: June 2024

SecurityScorecard gave the U.S. healthcare industry a B+ rating for cybersecurity during the first 6 months of 2024. This indicates that the industry is doing better in spite of the reported major breaches, including the […]

Medication benefits management service provider A&A Services, also known as Sav-Rx, is facing a class action lawsuit because of a data breach that occurred in October 2023 affecting 2.8 million people. On or about October […]

In 2022, a hacker accessed Medibank’s system, stole the personal and health data of 9.7 million people, and exposed the stolen files on the dark web. This Australian health insurance company has confirmed the ransomware […]

Adventist Health has just reported that an unauthorized individual accessed the protected health information (PHI) of over 70,000 patients of Adventist Health Tulare in California. The security incident happened at its business associate, Signature Performance, […]

The Health Sector Cyber Initiative of the Biden administration has partnered with Microsoft and Google to give critical access and rural hospitals free and discounted cybersecurity services. In 2023, the healthcare industry experienced more ransomware […]

In July 2023, the LockBit ransomware group listed Panorama Eyecare on its data leak website and noted to have stolen 798 GB of files from the doctor-led management services provider based in Fort Collins, CO. […]

The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health suffered a phishing attack that allowed unauthorized access to the email account of an employee resulting in the compromise of protected health information (PHI) for 1,598 individuals. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) included a critical vulnerability identified in the NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect remote code execution to its Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) Catalog. Mirth Connect is a free software integration […]