Cass Regional Medical Center in Harrisonville, MO encountered a ransomware attack on July 9, 2018. The ransomware attack impacted its communication network so employees cannot access its electronic medical record (EHR) system. Thankfully, the medical [...]

Humana is letting members know that in certain states that an advanced spoofing attack possibly compromised their protected health information (PHI). A spoofing attack is an effort by a bot or threat actor to access [...]

Outdated pager systems are already replaced by secure messaging systems in lots of healthcare companies. Any healthcare provider that may be still utilizing the pager system should be aware of the security breach that recently [...]

Washington Health System resolved to suspend some employees after finding out about their supposed inappropriate access of patient health information. Even though there’s no confirmation regarding the number of employees that were suspended from their [...]

Black Book Research surveyed how much hospitals and physicians use mobile technology. The results revealed that 90% of the hospitals and 94% of physician that participated in the survey have utilized mobile technology and feel [...]

A personnel in Terros Health in Phoenix was victimized by a phishing scam and by mistake exposed his login information. The attacker gained access to the victim’s email account who likely viewed the protected health [...]

The former employees of Hair Free Forever and Muir Medical Group stole the protected health information (PHI) of patients and gave it to other employers. The patients were informed by the covered organizations concerning the [...]

Dignity Health submitted multiple data breach reports and HIPAA violations to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The reports included an unauthorized access to the PHI of patients, access [...]