Hearst Health subsidiary, MCG Health based in Seattle, is facing multiple class-action lawsuits due to a data breach that impacted approximately 10 healthcare companies such as Lenoir Health Care, Indiana University Health, Jefferson County Health […]
Acorda Therapeutics Reports Email Account Breach The biotechnology firm Acorda Therapeutics based in Ardsley, NY reported that an unauthorized third party acquired access to its email system and possibly viewed email messages and file attachments […]
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has made the decision to negotiate a class action data breach lawsuit. It will set aside $450,000 to pay for claims from persons who have had losses because of the […]
PHI of Approximately 69,000 Persons Compromised in Comstar Hacking Incident Comstar based in Rowley, MA provides ambulance invoicing, collection, ePCR Hosting, and client/patient services. It found out that an unauthorized third-party acquired access to selected […]
Recently, Central Florida Inpatient Medicine (CFIM) based in Lake Mary, FL has found that an unauthorized person has accessed the email account of a staff member. The compromised emails and file attachments may contain the […]
A new bill has been launched by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that wishes to prohibit data brokers from selling the health and location information of Americans. The bill called The following senators co-sponsored the Health […]
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has announced the compromise of the protected health information (PHI) of 1,290,104 patients due to a data breach that occurred at Eye Care Leaders, its electronic medical record provider. […]
Shields Health Care Group is facing a class-action lawsuit over the 2 million-record data breach it recently announced. This is the largest healthcare data breach ever reported for this year. Shields Health Care Group is […]
Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) based in Arizona has stated that it suffered a ransomware attack in April. The threat actors obtained the protected health information (PHI) of around 700,000 current and past patients. Based […]
The 2022 State of Ransomware Report published by cybersecurity firm Sophos revealed that ransomware attacks on healthcare providers increased by 94% year over year. The report based its information on a worldwide survey participated by […]
Atlassian has announced a patch to correct a critical zero-day vulnerability that impacts all supported versions of Confluence Server and Data Center. The vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2022-26134 has a maximum CVSS severity score […]
There is a new zero-day vulnerability discovered that impacts a Windows tool like Follina. Although there’s no information if the vulnerability was exploited in the wild, it is possible to exploit it. The recent attention […]
Five vulnerabilities were discovered in the Illumina Local Run Manager (LRM), which is utilized by Illumina Researcher Use Only (ROU) instruments and Illumina In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) devices. The impacted instruments are employed for clinical […]
The law firm Morgan & Morgan filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Injured Workers Pharmacy (IWP) in association with a breach of the personal records of […]
A New York Federal Judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against Alliance HealthCare Services and NorthEast Radiology PC because of a data breach that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of above 1.2 million people […]
BJC HealthCare, a not-for-profit healthcare company located in St. Louis, MO, has begun informing a number of patients that an unauthorized individual accessed some of their protected health information (PHI) that was kept in email […]
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