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PHI Exposed in Data Breaches at Five Health Care Companies

December 1, 2022 Site Editor

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 […]

Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities Exploited by Attackers

May 20, 2022 Site Editor

Based on the latest security advisory released by the Five Eyes Cybersecurity agencies in the U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, the most frequent attack vectors cyber threat actors use for preliminary access to […]

Guidance Published for Healthcare CISOs Regarding Identity, Interoperability, and Patient Access

December 8, 2021 Site Editor

The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) has released guidance for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) on adopting an identity-centric strategy to enable safe and quick access to patient information to satisfy the interoperability, […]

NCSC Issued an Active Threat Warning Concerning a SharePoint RCE Vulnerability

October 21, 2020 Site Editor

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) just recently issued a security warning urging companies to patch a critical remote code execution vulnerability present in Microsoft SharePoint. There is also an advisory from the DHS […]

Microsoft Gives New Alert to Patch Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerability Because of Surging Attacks

June 29, 2020 Site Editor

Microsoft has given an additional notification to all Exchange users to apply the patch to vulnerability CVE-2020-0688, a critical Microsoft Exchange memory corruption. Microsoft provided an update to fix the vulnerability last February 2020 and […]

Georgia Hospital Accused of Falsification of COVID-19 Test Results Suspends Employees Over Suspected HIPAA Breach

June 26, 2020 Site Editor

Landmark Hospital of Athens based in Georgia suspended three staff members who are alleged of viewing, copying or exposing patient records. The likely HIPAA breach can be associated to a legal case that four nursing […]

The University of Utah Health Experiences Third Phishing Attack This Year

June 17, 2020 Site Editor

The University of Utah Health encountered another phishing attack that led to the exposure of the protected health information (PHI) of 2,700 patients. For the third time this year, the University of Utah had a […]

Patient Data Potential Compromise Due to Ransomware Attacks on Monterey Health Center and Magnolia Pediatrics

October 22, 2019 Site Editor

Monterey Health Center in Milwaukie, OR encountered a ransomware attack, which began on August 12, 2019. Because of the incident, its electronic health records system was encrypted and made patient information inaccessible. With the assistance […]

Ransomware Attack on Campbell County Health Caused Serious Interruption to Patient Services

September 23, 2019 Site Editor

A ransomware attack on Campbell County Health located in Gillette, WY resulted in the disablement of hospital systems, which prevented access to patient information. The attack began in early in the morning of September 20, […]

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