Compliance

February 12, 2018

Western Washington Medical Group Patients Impacted by HIPAA Breach

842 patients of Western Washington Medical Group have had their protected health information exposed when files including sensitive health information were disposed of with regular trash ...

February 12, 2018

UK Government Websites Mining Cryptocurrency

UK government websites mining cryptocurrency after third party website plugin compromised by hackers. The plugin Browsealoud, used on many government websites to help hearing-impaired and ...

February 9, 2018

May 2017 Partners HealthCare Breach May Have Affected 2,600 Clients

2,600 clients of Partners HealthCare System are being warned that some of their protected health information may have been compromised in a May 2017 breach. ...

February 8, 2018

TitanHQ Joins HTG Peer Groups as Gold Vendor

Irish anti-spam, web filtering, and email archiving solution provider TitanHQ has announced that 2018 will see the company become a Gold Vendor member of HTG ...

February 7, 2018

CarePlus Health Warns 11,200 Subscribers of PHI Breach

A privacy incident has been suffered by Miami, FL-based CarePlus Health Plans where certain plan subscribers’ protected health information were mistakenly shared with other plan ...

February 5, 2018

Forrest General Hospital Phishing Attack Exposes Patients’ PHI

The PHI has of patients of Forrest Health’s Forrest General Hospital has potentially been obtained by a third party after access was gained to the ...

January 25, 2018

53,000 Pharmacy Patients Have PHI Exposed in Email Hack

Patients of Onco360 and CareMed Specialty Pharmacy have been notified that the PHI of 53,173 patients has been compromised due to a phishing attack. A security ...

January 19, 2018

Hancock Health Hit by Ransomware Attack

Following a ransomware attack on Indiana-based organization Hancock Health last Thursday, staff at the hospital had no choice but to move to using pen and ...

January 17, 2018

Coplin Health Systems Patients’ PHI Possibly Compromised by Laptop Theft

43,000 patients of West Virginia-based Coplin Health Systems have been warned that their PHI may have been exposed following the theft of an unencrypted laptop ...

January 15, 2018

Unencrypted Hard Drive Results in the PHI of 9387 Patients’ Being Exposed

In late November, the Framingham, MA-based Charles River Medical Associates based practice discovered one of its external hard drives was missing from its usual location. ...

January 13, 2018

PHI Breach at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

An unauthorized individual has gained access to parts of the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSUCHS) network and may have accessed files containing ...

January 11, 2018

Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Hit by Phishing Attack

An unauthorized individual has gained access to a single email account of a staff member at the Agency for Health Care Administration in Florida using ...

January 8, 2018

Half of Users Click Links Sent by Unknown Senders

A new report from Komodo security suggests that until at least 2020, phishing will remain the most commonly used tactic of conducting advanced attacks on ...

January 6, 2018

Bronson Healthcare Group Phishing Attack Impacts 8,256 Patients

A recent Bronson Healthcare Group phishing attack has resulted in a hacker gaining access to the protected health information (PHI) of 8,256 patients. The attack ...

January 5, 2018

Employee-Related Data Breach at SSM Health Affects 29,000

It has been discovered that a former worker at the St. Louis, MO-based not-for-profit health system, SSM Health was accessing the health records of clients for ...

January 3, 2018

24,000 Patients Impacted by Emory Healthcare Data Breach

It has been discovered that a former worker at Emory Healthcare (EHC) has obtained the protected health information of 24,000 EHC patients and uploaded the ...

January 3, 2018

PhishLine Bought by Barracuda Networks

The phishing simulation and security awareness training company PhishLine has been bought by Barracuda Networks. Barracuda Networks is expanding its phishing defense solutions and is ...

January 2, 2018

Cyberattack Affects Internal Access to Jones Memorial Hospital Servers

University of Rochester Medicine’s Jones Memorial Hospital, located in Wellsville, New York is currently dealing with a cyberattack that has inflicted some unexpected downtime on ...

December 27, 2017

Nebraska Ransomware Attacks Compromised PHI of Almost 10,000 Patients

A ransomware attack that targeted Columbus Surgery Center, LLC and Eye Physicians, P.C., in Columbus, Nebraska has potentially exposedin the protected health information of almost ...

December 21, 2017

1,750 Patients Affected by Potential Data Theft Incident at Austin Manual Therapy

1,750 patients have been notified that some of their protected health information may have been accessed and stolen by a criminal attacker who gained access ...

December 21, 2017

1,900 MidMichigan Medical Center Patients’ PHI Found After Breach

MidMichigan Medical Center (MMC) in Alpena has made contact with patients to advise them of a possible breach of their health information, which may have ...

December 20, 2017

Cyberattacks on Hospitals on the Rise: 78% of Providers Attacked in 2017

There has been an increase in cyberattacks on hospitals in 2017, according to a recent Mimecast survey. The survey was conducted on 76 healthcare IT ...

December 19, 2017

PHI of Almost 7,000 Patients Exposed in Two Separate Breaches

A binder holding a log of presurgical insurance authorizations was accidentally recycled by a cleaning company contracted by NYU Langone Health System in October. The ...

December 18, 2017

5,000 Patients’ PHI Exposed in Two Separate Breaches

Separate breaches of patients’ protected health information have been exposed at Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, TX, and Washington Health System Greene in Waynesburg, PA. The ...

December 17, 2017

UNC Health Care Breach Potentially Impacts 24,000 Patients

A computer device belonging to UNC Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, NC, has been stolen in a burglary, possibly exposing the protected ...

December 14, 2017

18,500 Patients’ PHI Exposed After Multiple Email Accounts Were Compromised

The Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System has issued notifications to almost 18,500 patients that some of their PHI has potentially been seen by an unauthorized ...

December 13, 2017

Mimecast Survey Reveals Healthcare Providers See Email as a Major Attack Vector

A recent Mimecast-sponsored survey conducted by HIMSS Analytics has shown that healthcare providers believe email to be a main attack vector used by cybercriminals to ...

December 12, 2017

Healthcare Worker Stole PHI of 28,000 Health Care Services Patients

Private documents holding the PHI of patients have been stolen by a former employee of the Center for Health Care Services (CHCS) in San Antonio, ...

December 4, 2017

Multiple Breaches Lead to $2m Fine for Cottage Health

Cottage Health, the Santa Barbara-based healthcare provider, will pay $2 million to resolve multiple violations of state and federal laws as per a directive from ...

November 30, 2017

Rocky Mountain Health Care Services has Second Unencrypted Laptop Stolen

An unencrypted laptop has been stolen from one of its employees of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services of Colorado Springs. This is the second such ...

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