Lake Region Healthcare located in Fergus Falls, Minnesota is having an investigation of a ransomware attack detected on December 22, 2020. The ransomware attack impacted a number of systems of the healthcare company that interrupted […]
2020 ended with healthcare data breach reports at the rate of two each day, which is two times the rate of breach reports last January 2020. There was a 31.9% month over month increase in […]
A recent study printed in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) revealed that information blocking by electronic health record (EHR) vendors remains remarkably rampant in spite of recent policymaking that forbids information […]
Ransomware attacks have had a big impact on companies and organizations in the United States, and 2020 was in particular a bad year. Ransomware gangs targeted the healthcare sector, education industry, and federal, state, and […]
Minnesota South Country Health Alliance based in Owatonna, MN has identified that an unauthorized individual got access to a staff’s email account that held the protected health information (PHI) of 66,874 of its members. The […]
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is moving forward with its efforts to catch healthcare companies that fail to provide patients with prompt access to their healthcare records. OCR recently announced a settlement reached […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a Private Industry Advisory regarding the growing number of cases of Egregor ransomware attacks. This ransomware-as-a-service operation was first discovered in September 2020. The attackers behind the Egregor […]
An email security breach at LSU Health University Medical Center-New Orleans led to the probable exposure of the protected health information (PHI) of some patients. LSU Health New Orleans Health Care Services Division earlier announced […]
Prestera Center for Mental Health Services, West Virginia’s biggest behavioral health services provider, became aware that an unauthorized person potentially obtained access to the protected health information (PHI) of a small number of its present […]
In the fall of 2020, CISA, FBI, and HHS cybersecurity gave a joint advisory to the healthcare and public health industry subsequent to a surge in ransomware activity. The joint notice discussed that attackers are […]
2020 was the most awful ever year when it comes to healthcare industry data breaches. There were 616 data breaches involving 500 or more health records documented by the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights. Those […]
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) issued a cybersecurity advisory concerning the activity of Russian state-sponsored hacking groups targeting a vulnerability found in VMWare virtual workspaces that is used for performing remote work. The vulnerability […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has released a new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules guidance to tackle the issue of disclosing protected health information (PHI) to […]
Atlantic.net in Orlando, Florida made statements concerning big changes that will help improve its performance, make its billing more accurate, and allow it to deliver better overall customer assistance. The hosting provider currently provides its […]
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