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A Baton Rouge, La.-based clinic reported a July 8 cyberattack temporarily encrypted thousands of patient records.

Watertown, NY-based Samaritan Health is still recovering from a malware attack that occurred on July 25, and not all of its systems have returned to normal operations.

Arizona-based Assured Imaging is notifying 244,813 patients that some of their data was potentially exfiltrated after a ransomware attack in May.

September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NIATM), which is a collaborative effort between the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), National Insider Threat Task Force (NITTF), Office of the…

A Breese nurse has filed a lawsuit against Clinton County Health Department, alleging that she was fired in April for refusing to give law-enforcement agencies the names and addresses of…

Utah Pathology Services is notifying 112,000 patients that their data was potentially affected after the hack of an employee email account in June.

The HIPAA Security Rule requires covered entities and business associates to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all electronic protected health information (ePHI) that it creates, receives, maintains, or…

Over two dozen boxes of old medical records containing personal patient information were found at the Odessa Recycling Center.

South Dakotans whose COVID-19 status and other personal information was collected by state agencies may be subject to a data breach that is under federal investigation.

For three weeks, a 290-bed medical facility in upstate New York has been grappling with a cybersecurity incident that prevented doctors from accessing patients’ electronic medical records (EMRs).