By Jill McKeon
February 07, 2024 – US Fertility (USF) reached a $5.75 million settlement to resolve allegations of negligence following a 2020 ransomware attack and data breach that impacted nearly 900,000 individuals. USF provides IT…
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By Jill McKeon
January 30, 2024 – Concentra Health Services filed a data breach report with HHS in January tied to a previously reported breach at Perry Johnson & Associates (PJ&A), a medical transcription company. Concentra’s…
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By Jill McKeon
January 24, 2024 – Singing River Health System in Mississippi suffered a ransomware attack in August 2023 that resulted in a data breach. The breach impacted 252,890 individuals in total, according to a…
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Brian Montgomery, Senior Security Engineer, Altera Digital Health
Research reveals that the total number of data breaches in healthcare has doubled over the last three years. If that doesn’t prompt you to reexamine your organization’s security posture, the…
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The following is a guest article by Dan Yerushalmi, CEO at AU10TIX
In the ever-evolving world of healthcare, the shift from traditional paper records to digital systems has triggered a substantial transformation. This metamorphosis has…
Less than a week before Christmas day, St Vincent’s Health, one of Australia’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care providers, detected a breach in its IT system.On 19 December, it responded to the incident…
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By Jill McKeon
December 15, 2023 – Illinois-based Harrisburg Medical Center (HMC) filed a data breach notice with the Maine Attorney General’s Office regarding a December 2022 breach. The breach impacted 147,826 individuals in total.
HMC’s notice…
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By Jill McKeon
December 13, 2023 – New York Attorney General (NYAG) Letitia James reached a settlement with Healthplex, a large dental insurance provider, following a data breach that occurred in November 2021. Healthplex agreed to…
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center patients are receiving extortion emails stemming from a reported data breach that occurred late last month.WHY IT MATTERS
Nick Quinlan, a Fred Hutch patient, was asked to pay 50 bitcoin to…
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center patients are receiving extortion emails stemming from a reported data breach that occurred late last month.WHY IT MATTERS
Nick Quinlan, a Fred Hutch patient, was asked to pay 50 bitcoin to…
