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July 10, 2019

City of Griffin Wires $800,000 to BEC Scammers

A business email compromise attack on the city of Griffin, GA, has resulted in two payments totaling $800,000 being made to accounts controlled by the ...

July 8, 2019

HIPAA Compliance & IBM Cloud

IBM provides a cloud platform to help groups create their mobile and web services, build native cloud apps, and host their infrastructure along with a ...

July 8, 2019

Unauthorized Use of PHI as Teaching Tool Leads to Legal Action by Student

A medical student at Marshall University is suing the institution, along with Cabell Huntington Hospital, in relation to the unauthorized sharing of some of his ...

July 7, 2019

Phishing Attack Impacts PHI of 10,893 Summa Health Patients

It was discovered on on May 1 that up to four employee email accounts containing patients’ protected health information (PHI) have been infiltrated at Akron, ...

June 26, 2019

Millions of Computers Vulnerable to Dell SupportAssist Flaw

A vulnerability has been identified in Dell SupportAssist software that is pre-installed on millions of Dell PCs and laptops. The privilege escalation flaw could be ...

June 21, 2019

Two Maryland Healthcare Providers Affected by Potential Breach at Meditab Software

In Maryland two healthcare providers have been impacted by a possible data breach that took place at their business associate, Meditab Software Inc.Meditab supplies EMR ...

June 16, 2019

General Catalyst Enters into €70 Million Finance Agreement with Vade Secure

Vade Secure has announced it has secured €70 million in funding from General Catalyst. The money will be invested in machine learning technology for its ...

June 6, 2019

AMCA Breach Affects Almost 7.7 Million Patients

After reports that the data breach at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) impacted the records of 11.9 million Quest Diagnostics patients, comes revelation that another ...

June 4, 2019

Sensitive Information of 11.9 Million Quest Diagnostics Patients Compromised

Quest Diagnostics, one of the leading medical laboratories and blood testing companies in the United States, has been affected by a data breach at one ...

May 21, 2019

Healthcare Data Breach Report for April 2019

April 2019 was the worst month recorded, to date, for healthcare data breaches. More data breaches were made known to the Department of Health and ...

May 20, 2019

Verity Health’s St. Vincent Medical Center Reports Phishing Attack

St. Vincent Medical Center, a part of Verity Health System, has announced a staff email account has been hacked following a response to a phishing ...

May 16, 2019

Legal Action: Court Told Hospital Worker Shared Patient Information

A legal action has been submitted against Atchison Hospital in Kansas by a rape victim who claims an x-ray technician at the hospital got in ...

May 15, 2019

Microsoft Issues Patches for 79 Vulnerabilities Including Critical Wormable Flaw

May 2019 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft release security updates to correct 79 vulnerabilities including one critical flaw that could potentially be exploited in a ...

May 11, 2019

1,100 Spectrum Health Lakeland Patients Affected by Phishing Attack

Spectrum Health Lakeland has revealed that a breach, the second the group has suffered in as many months, has exposed the protected health information (PHI) ...

May 11, 2019

Extensive HIPAA Failures Lead to $3 Million Fine for Touchstone Medical Imaging

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed that a settlement has been agreed between with the Franklin, TN-based ...

May 4, 2019

Court Rules that Negligence Claim Based on HIPAA Violation can Proceed in Arizona

An Arizona man who submitted a legal action against Costco in relation to a privacy violation and had the lawsuit thrown out by the trial ...

May 2, 2019

Business Associate Phishing Attack Impacts PHI of 17,531 Patients

Women’s Health USA Inc., an Avon, CT-based business associate that supplies a range of practice management services to healthcare groups, has suffered a phishing attack ...

May 2, 2019

DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Address Critical Vulnerabilities Within 15 Days

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a binding operational directive (BOD) which requires all federal agencies to correct critical vulnerabilities in Internet-accessible systems ...

April 20, 2019

Cybercriminals Turn to PDF Files to Deliver Malicious Payloads

Q1, 2019 saw a marked increase in the use of PDF files to deliver malware, according to the Q1 2019 Cyber Threat Report from SonicWall. ...

April 18, 2019

297 Flaws Patched by Oracle in its April Security Update

Oracle’s April security update includes patches for 297 vulnerabilities across its product suite. Users of Oracle products have been advised to update the products as ...

April 9, 2019

Verizon Pushing Firmware Upgrade that Addresses Serious Router Command Injection Flaw

Millions of Verizon routers are affected by a command injection flaw that could allow an attacker to gain full control of the device. The flaw ...

March 27, 2019

Apple Patches 51 Serious Security Flaws in iOS 12.2 Update

Apple has released a new update of its iOS operating system for iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and 6th gen iPods. An ...

March 22, 2019

Microsoft Will End Support for Windows 7 in January 2020

Microsoft has announced that support for Windows 7 will come to an end on January 14, 2020. All Windows 7 users will be advised to ...

March 16, 2019

Sharecare Health Data Services Issues Alert 8 Months After Breach Discovery

Sharecare Health Data Services (SHDS), a San Diego firm that provides secure electronic exchange and medical records management services for healthcare groups, has contacted some ...

March 14, 2019

Healthcare Employees Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks

The healthcare industry appears to have more than its fair share of phishing attacks. Barely a week goes by without a major phishing attack being ...

March 11, 2019

Jackson County, Georgia Pays $400,000 Ransom to Recover Encrypted Files

After considering the potential costs and benefits, Jackson County, Georgia determined that paying the ransom demand to unlock files encrypted in ransomware attack was the ...

March 6, 2019

16,440 Patients Affect by Breach at Kentucky Counseling Center

Kentucky Counseling Center (KCC) has uncovered a list of 16,440 clients has been illegally taken and shared with another person. A current member of staff ...

March 5, 2019

Milestone Family Medicine Data Breach Made Known to St. Francis Patients

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System is getting in touch with patients in relation to a security breach that may have led to some of ...

March 5, 2019

PHI Incident at Rush University Medical Center Impacts up to 45,000 Patients

Rush University Medical Center is contacting around 45,000 patients to advise them that their PHI has been exposed due to a data incident at a ...

February 25, 2019

UConn Health Phishing Attack Impacts 326K Patients

A UConn Health phishing attack in December has potentially allowed an unauthorized individual to gain access to the health information of hundreds of thousands of ...

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