Healthcare Giant UHS Hit by Ransomware Attack, Sources Say
Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the largest healthcare providers in the US, has been hit by a ransomware attack. Statement from UHS: https://www.uhsinc.com/statement-from-universal-health-services/.
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Health Insurer Pays $6.85 Million to Settle Data Breach Affecting over 10.4 Million People
Premera Blue Cross (PBC) has agreed to pay $6.85 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to implement…
Read More »HIPAA Business Associate Pays $2.3M to Settle Breach Affecting PHI of over 6 million Individuals
CHSPSC LLC, has agreed to pay $2,300,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to adopt a corrective action…
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Orthopedic Clinic Pays $1.5 Million to Settle Systemic Noncompliance with HIPAA Rules
Athens Orthopedic Clinic PA has agreed to pay $1,500,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to adopt a…
Read More »Geisinger Notifies Patients of Protected Health Information Incident
Geisinger has notified certain patients that their protected health information (PHI) may have been accessed by an individual employee in a non-permitted manner.
Read More »Prosecutors Open Homicide Case after Cyberattack on German Hospital
German prosecutors have opened a homicide investigation into the case of a patient who died after a hospital in the city of Düsseldorf was unable to admit her because its…
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Ransomware Hacking Groups Post Data from 5 Healthcare Entities
The hacking groups behind Pysa or Mespinoza, SunCrypt, REvil, and NetWalker ransomware variants posted data allegedly stolen from five separate healthcare entities on the dark web for sale, in an…
Read More »German hospital hacked; patient taken to another city dies
German authorities said Thursday that an apparently misdirected ransomware attack caused the failure of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died…
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Minnesota’s second-largest healthcare data breach hits Children’s, other providers
The parents of tens of thousands of patients of Children’s Minnesota hospitals are being told to watch their medical bills for signs of fraud in the wake of the second-largest…
Read More »Cincinnati nursing homes targeted: Hackers take ID information of residents
Hackers have taken personal information including birthdates and names of some the residents of Ohio nursing home and senior living communities ran by Life Enriching Communities, according to a release…
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