The protected health information of 1,071 patients who received medical services at the Des Moines Crisis Observation Center was “accidentally and unknowingly disseminated” for a period of three and a half years. The Crisis Observation [...]

The updated version of the Cybersecurity Framework was made available by the National Institute of Standards and Technology this April 16, 2018. This framework for improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity was issued initially on February 2014. [...]

The number of healthcare data breaches increased month-over-month. In March 2018, HIPAA covered entities reported 29 security breaches. February 2018 had 25 breach incidents. Though the number of reported data breaches increased in March, there [...]

UnityPoint Health discovered that unauthorized individuals accessed the email accounts of several employees. It was found that the email accounts were accessed for a period of three months starting from November 1, 2017 up to [...]

Inogen is a company that manufactures portable oxygen concentrators. An unauthorized person got the login credentials of one Inogen employee and accessed his email account. The personal information of about 30,000 persons that Inogen provided [...]

Baptist Health’s West Kendall Baptist Hospital in Miami, FL discovered that a former employee stole the credit card information of patients then used the details for fraudulent purchases. Baptist Health found out about the misuse [...]

The protected health information (PHI) of tens of thousands of Middletown Medical patients was exposed due to a misconfiguration in the security setting of a radiology interface. Middletown Medical, a multi-specialty physician’s group that is [...]

Ponemon Institute conducted a survey on behalf of ServiceNow to learn about the issues on patching that healthcare and pharmaceutical industries are struggling with. The study revealed that organizations are not patching vulnerabilities promptly hence [...]