A wrong configuration of an internal website portal used by a Florida county drug screening laboratory exposed sensitive data on the internet for over four years. St. Lucie County’s drug screening lab (SLC Lab) offers […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the first settlement deal of 2022 over a healthcare data breach. The vision benefits provider based in Ohio, Med Vision Care, is going to pay $600,000 as a […]
A current study by Cynerio, a healthcare IoT security platform provider, has uncovered that 53% of connected medical devices and other healthcare IoT devices have no less than one unaddressed critical vulnerability that can possibly […]
The DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an alert to all companies in America to take prompt action to get ready for attempted cyberattacks using a new wiper malware employed in targeted […]
An $18.4 million settlement has been reached to resolve a class-action lawsuit filed against Mass General Brigham in relation to the usage of site analytics tools, cookies, pixels, and related technologies on a number of […]
In December 2021, there were 56 data breaches involving 500 and up healthcare records reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which showed a 17.64% drop compared to the past month. In 2021, […]
Jefferson Surgical Clinic based in Roanoke, VA has started alerting patients concerning the potential compromise of some of their protected health information (PHI) due to a cyberattack that was uncovered on June 5, 2021. Based […]
The tech firm Accellion in Palo Alto, CA made a proposal for an $8.1 million settlement to take care of a class action data breach suit that was filed on behalf of affected individuals of […]
The digital pharmacy and health app developer Ravkoo based in Auburndale, FL has started sending notification letters to a number of patients regarding an unauthorized individual who viewed and potentially stole some of their sensitive […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have given a joint alert to caution about the danger of Russian cyberattacks on critical infrastructures, […]
In 2019, it was scary to have over 1 healthcare data breach report daily. In 2021, certain months had over two healthcare data breaches per day. With data breaches occurring so often and ransomware attacks […]
Anthem Inc. has notified 2,003 members that an unauthorized individual potentially viewed or obtained some of their protected health information (PHI) after gaining access to the network of one of its business associates. Anthem works […]
A specialty pharmacy based in Florida is dealing with a class-action lawsuit concerning an October 2021 cyberattack that resulted in the stealing of the personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of around […]
Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) has lately advised 79,943 present and past patients concerning unauthorized persons that may have accessed or acquired some of their protected health information (PHI). FCI found suspicious system activity last […]
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) has just informed the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights regarding a data breach that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 5,015 individuals […]
Some of the major healthcare data breaches of 2021 are the worst in history. This post summarizes the major data breaches reported in 2021. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights’ […]
Saltzer Health based in Nampa, Idaho has begun informing a number of patients regarding the exposure of their protected health information (PHI) due to an email account breach, which was discovered on June 1, 2021. […]
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