A cyberattack on the Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) in Portsmouth, OH, resulter in the healthcare facility diverting ambulances to alternative healthcare centers. In addition…
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Health insurer provider Excellus Health Plan has agreed to pay a $5.1m penalty with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights…
60,545 subscribers to Tufts Health Plan have had their protected health information infiltrated as result of a phishing attack on the vision benefits management firm…
Universal Health Services has revealed the every one of its 250 United States based hospitals are 100% back in action following a suspected ransomware attack….
PrairieVille is a Magnolia Pediatrics based in LA and is now notifying 12,861 of its patients that a ransomware attack has potentially compromised some of…
Bronx, New York based Montefiore Medical Center has dismissed a member of staff in relation to the alleged theft of the protected health information of…
Long Island City, NY-located Boyce Technologies Inc, which produces transport communication systems and recently changed its production facilities to provide ventilators for hospitals during the…
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed that a $25,000 settlement has been agreed with Metropolitan Community Health Services to settle breaches of…
Healthcare provider Aveanna Healthcare is facing a potential class action lawsuit in relation to a data breach that took place during 2019 which impacted 166,000…
Management and Network Services (MNS), LLC, a Dublin, OH-located supplier of administrative support services to post-acute healthcare providers, has revealed that the email accounts of…
The protected health information of more than 10,000 patients has been impacted in a phishing attack no the Onamia, MN-based Mille Lacs Health System Phishing…
Connecticut -based Saint Francis Healthcare Partners is contacting 38,529 patients to make them aware that some of their protected health information may have been obtained…
The Sparks, NV orthodontics practice, Andrews Braces suffered a ransomware attack on February 14, leading to the encryption of patient data. A resulting investigation determining…
Stockdale Radiology in California has revealed that patient data has been impacted due to a ransomware attack thsat occurred on January 17, 2020. An internal…
Washington University School of Medicine making 14,795 oncology patients aware that some of their PHI may have been impacted in a phishing attacking during January…
The Georgia Department of Human Services has revealed that employees in Augusta, GA improperly shared of confidential case files that geld the healthcare records of…
Stephan C Dean, the co-owner of the California record storage company Surefile, reported a hacking/IT incident to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on…
Recent reports have indicated that the World Health Organization has been impacted by a spate of cyber attacks where web pages have been established to…
The Minnesota-based senior care treatment LifeSprk is making contact 9,000 of its clients that some of their protected health information was possibly breach due to…
It has been identified that an employee of Hawaii Pacific Health at Straub Medical Center in Honolulu has been snooping on the medical records of…
NRC Health, a supplier of patient survey services and software to over 9,000 healthcare group, including 75% of the biggest hospital networks in the United…
Unauthorized individuals have been gaining access to access emails and email attachments containing the protected health information of 16,167 patients within the Hospital Sisters Health…
Oregon’s Medicaid coordinated-care group, Health Share of Oregon, is getting in touch with around 654,000 current and former subscribers to make them aware that a…
Security experts at TechCrunch have discovered a security flaw in a website hosting an internal customer relationship management system deployed the clinical laboratory network LabCorp….
Health Quest, which now forms part of Nuvance Health, has become aware the phishing attack it experienced in July 2018 was more wide reaching than…
Adventist Health Sonora in California has found out that an unauthorized person has obtained access to the email account of a hospital associate and may…
Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest, Inc., (NARA) a Portland, OR-based supplier of education, physical and mental health services and substance abuse treatment services…
50,000 patients of Alexandria, MN-based Alomere Health are being contacted to advise them that a portion of their protected health information was potentially accessed by…
Truman Medical Centers, the biggest provider of inpatient and outpatient services in Kansas City, MO, has found out that the protected health information of 114,466…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has found that a vulnerability in its Blue Button 2.0 API that allowed access to the…
The email accounts of several staff members of Conway Medical Center in South Carolina have been obtained by unauthorized persons. The phishing attack was first…
Hackensack Meridian Health, the biggest health network in New Jersey, has revealed it was targeted in a cyberattack recently which resulted in ransomware being deployed…
Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital discovered that one of its former staff in the emergency department has allegedly stolen the protected health information (PHI) of about…
A nurse working at a Texas children’s hospital was laid off for posting protected health information (PHI) on a social media site, which is a…
There is a new development in the legal case that the Premera Blue Cross data breach 2015 victims filed. As per the victims, Premera Blue…
An ex-employee at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, who is the patient information coordinator, was charged by a federal grand jury with criminal violations…
Banner Health issued a financial report mentioning OCR’s investigation of the colossal 2016 Banner Health data breach. In the said breach incident, 27 Banner Health…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the first case of HIPAA settlement for 2018. For multiple potential HIPAA…
Documents containing the sensitive information of 842 patients at Western Washington Medical Group were compromised on November 13, 2017. Apparently, the documents were thrown away…
An unauthorized former nurse in Palomar Medical Center Escondido viewed the medical records of over 1,300 patients. The patient privacy violations happened in a period…
A former physician at the Emory Healthcare (EHC) took the protected health information of thousands of EHC patients without hospital authorization and knowledge. He uploaded…
The Multi-State Billing Services (MBS) based in New Hampshire experienced a data breach that resulted to a financial settlement of $100,000 with Massachusetts attorney general’s…
An unsealed complaint against 60 hospitals was filed in a U.S. District Court in Indiana in 2016 for violating the HITECH Act. The 60 hospitals…
A man was sentenced to serve a three-year jail term for fraud and blackmail offenses. Nathan Wyatt, a 36-year old from Wellingborough, England was allegedly…
A security breach at Baptist Health in Louisville, Kentucky was discovered on October 3, 2017. Potentially 880 patients had been notified that their sensitive information…
Nurse Dianna Hereford’s employment contract was terminated after a patient of Norton Audubon Hospital complained of a nurse HIPAA violation. Hereford filed an action in…
Tangela Lawson-Brown, a former nurse in a Tallahassee nursing home from October 2011 to December 2012, was convicted of possession of unauthorized access devices, wire…
The SAManage USA data breach in 2016 caused the online exposure of the Social Security numbers of 660 Vermont residents. The Vermont Attorney General required…
Florida Blue, the business name of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, has recently announced that the personally identifiable information of a nearly one…
Following a break-in at a file storage facility in East Brunswick, New Jersey, the Otolaryngology Associates of Central Jersey is in the process of alerting…
Amazon Web Services has announced that new safeguards have been incorporated into its cloud server that reduce the probability that users to misconfigure their S3…
A report covering data breaches in 2017 has recently been released by Risk Based Security (RBS). The report revealed there has been a 305% increase…
Cook County Health and Hospitals System has recently alerted patients to a breach of their protected health information (PHI). The organisation consists of a health…
In August, the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany (CCDA) performed a routine upgrade of its computer security software. While the technicians were working…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has increased its enforcement operations in recent years, and 2016 HIPAA settlements were…
The Ottawa-based East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging (ECKAAA) has recently announced that it experienced a ransomware attack. The attack caused files on one…
Two former employees of Valley Family Medicine in Staunton, VA have been discovered to have inappropriately used a patient list, in violation of the practice’s…
The Brevard Physician Associates has announced that they have experienced a breach of protected health information (PHI). They state that the breach occurred due to…
An independent care provider, who provides care to patients of TJ Samson Community Hospital in South Central Kentucky, has recently been discovered to have inappropriately…
FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a Pinehurst, SC-based not for profit health network, has recently announced that it has experienced a data breach. They have identified…
Briggs Stratton Corporation, a manufacturer of lawnmower engines, has recently reported that they have experienced a breach of PHI, resulting from a malware attack. It…
Phishing-the act of obtaining sensitive information such as usernames, bank details or other private information, often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity…
Texas Children’s Health Plan has announced a breach of nearly 1,000 patient’s protected health information (PHI). The organisation said that the breach was discover when…
The Advanced Spine & Pain Center (ASPC) has announced that it has experienced a potential breach and unauthorized use of their protected health information. The…
The Man-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA has announced that it has experienced a breach of PHI. The breach was a result of the…
Dr Riaz Baber, M.D.-a Naperville, Illinois-based psychiatrist-has recently admitted to a breach of patient protected health information (PHI). The breach was discovered medical files of…
The radiology center of Mid-Michigan Physicians-managed by McLaren Medical Group-has announced today that they have experienced a breach of protected health information (PHI). They have…
A decommissioned laptop computer previously used by the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center (MGVAMC) in Spokane, WA, has been discovered to be missing. The laptop is…
Our Lady of the Angels Hospital has announced the discovery of a breach of patient protected health information (PHI). The breach occurred when a former…
Recently, the MS Center of Saint Louis and Mercy Clinic Neurology Town and County have announced that they have breached HIPAA regulations. Over one-thousand patients…
Yolanda Farrar-former employee of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS)-has been fired from her position at the state hospital for breaching HIPAA legislation in…
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Bedford Memorial hospital has announced that an incident occurred at the facility which was in violation of HIPAA legislation….
Salina Family Healthcare, based in Kansas, has announced that they were subjected to a ransomware attack earlier this year. They stated that the ransomware was…
Women’s Health Care Group of Pennsylvania has announced that they have been subject to a data breach. The organisation states that the breach was noticed…
