Kansas Nursing Home Operator Fined for Failing to Protect Patient, Employee Personal Information
The owner of a closed Caney nursing home has been fined for failing to protect patient and employee records, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said. James R. Laidler of Pittsburg,…
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Multiple Phishing Campaigns Target O365 Credentials
Multiple phishing campaigns have been identified targeting Microsoft Office 365 (O365) users in an attempt to steal login credentials. In one of the campaigns, the phishing email mimics an automated…
Read More »274K Patients Impacted by Benefit Recovery Specialists Credential Hack
More than 274,000 patients from several healthcare providers and payers that use Benefit Recovery Specialists (BRSI) for billing and collections services are being notified that their data was potentially breached…
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Former employee of GA medical packaging co. pleads guilty to disrupting PPE shipments
Christopher Dobbins has pleaded guilty to the charge of reckless damage to a protected computer for deleting and modifying his former employer’s electronic shipping and other business records. Dobbins’s former…
Read More »Lawsuits after Ransomware Incidents: The Trend Continues
A lawsuit seeking damages as well as security mandates has been filed against a Florida-based orthopedic group in the wake of a ransomware incident.
Read More »Personal Information Exposed in NC Nursing Home Data Breach
Choice Health Management Services, which owns several nursing homes throughout the Carolinas, announced it was the victim of a data breach, which potentially exposed the personal information of several current…
Read More »Ransomware Gang Auctions off US Healthcare Data for Bitcoin
Crozer-Keystone Health System recently suffered a ransomware attack by the NetWalker ransomware gang.
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Hacker Arrested and Charged over 2014 UPMC Cyberattack
The United States Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Pennsylvania has announced that a suspect has been arrested and charged over the 2014 hacking of the human resources databases…
Read More »Breaches Reported by Hanger Clinic, Gateway Health, and Sunrise Treatment Center
Sunrise Treatment Center in Cincinnati, OH is alerting 3,660 patients that some of their protected health information may have been accessed by an unauthorized individual who gained access to the…
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Michigan Man Arrested for 2014 Hack of UPMC HR Databases and Theft of Employees’ Personal Information
Justin Sean Johnson, who allegedly hacked the human resource databases of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and stole PII of over 65,000 UPMC employees, was arrested Tuesday morning in Detroit,…
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