Marketer Pleads Guilty to Involvement in Purchase and Sale of Millions of Medicare Beneficiary ID Numbers
A South Florida man pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to buy and sell more than 2.6 million Medicare beneficiary identification numbers, along with other personal identifiers. Charles William…
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US Department of Justice Disrupts Hive Ransomware Variant
The Justice Department announced its months-long disruption campaign against the Hive ransomware group that has targeted more than 1,500 victims in over 80 countries around the world, including hospitals, school…
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HC3 Publishes Threat Brief on Royal and BlackCat Ransomware
On Jan. 12, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) published a threat brief on Royal and BlackCat Ransomware. The groups are the latest to target the US healthcare sector…
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Mayo Clinic Settles Lawsuit Alleging Former Employee Viewed Nude Patient Images
Mayo Clinic has settled another lawsuit that stemmed from a data breach involving a former employee, who was discovered to have accessed the records of patients without authorization, including nude…
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Healthcare Organizations Failing to Assess and Mitigate Supply Chain Risks
Healthcare organizations can put a host of cybersecurity measures in place to secure their networks and prevent direct attacks by malicious actors, but significant challenges are faced securing the supply…
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Half of Ransomware Attacks Have Disrupted Healthcare Delivery, Jama Report Finds
Led by University of Minnesota Public Health researchers, the Trends in Ransomware Attacks on US Hospitals, Clinics and Other Health Care Delivery Organizations study quantified the frequency and characteristics of…
Read More »Hive Claims Responsibility for Nursing Home Chain Attack
A Florida-based nursing home chain with a checkered past says an unnamed third-party vendor is responsible for a data breach incident.
Read More »Trends in Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Delivery Organizations 2016–2021
In this cohort study of 374 ransomware attacks, the annual number of ransomware attacks on healthcare delivery organizations more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, exposing the personal health information…
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Lab Pays $16,500 Settlement to HHS, Resolving Potential HIPAA Violation over Medical Records Request
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services announced a settlement with Life Hope Labs, LLC, a full-service diagnostic laboratory in Sandy Springs,…
Read More »Hackers Accessed Data on 270,000 Patients from Louisiana Hospital System
Hackers accessed the personal data of nearly 270,000 patients in an attempted ransomware attack on a Louisiana healthcare system in October, a spokesperson for the system told CNN Wednesday.
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