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Cyberattack hits UnityPoint Health; 16k patients at risk
West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health fell victim to a cyberattack in February, jeopardizing 16,000 patients' personal information, according to WMTV. - 4/20/18 -
Employee at Carolina Digestive Health Associates steals PHI
Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolina Digestive Health Associates began notifying about 100 patients after it learned an employee stole their personal information — including Social Security numbers, dates of birth and names — and shared it with fraud suspects, according to wsoctv.com. - 4/19/18 -
Polk County Health Services notifies 1k mental health patients to breach that began in 2014
Polk County (Iowa) Health Services accidentally and unknowingly disseminated the protected health information of some patients who received care at the Crisis Observation Center in Des Moines, Iowa from June 2014 to January 2018. - 4/19/18 -
Florida managed care organization exposes patients PHI online
Lake Mary, Fla.-based MedWatch, a care management company that offers risk management solutions to self-funded health plans, began notifying their clients' health plan members April 13 that a vendor misconfiguration error exposed their protected health information between October 2017 and December 2017. - 4/19/18 -
Former Berkeley Medical Center employee owes $22k after stealing patient data
A former employee of Martinsburg, W. Va.-based Berkeley Medical Center — which is part of WVU Medicine University Healthcare — will pay more than $22,000 in restitution to resolve allegations of obtaining patients' information to open credit cards and other financial accounts, according to Herald-Mail Media. - 4/19/18 -
US, UK issue joint alert on alleged Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks
The FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.K. National Cyber Security Centre issued a joint technical alert on alleged Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks targeting international network infrastructure devices April 16. - 4/18/18 -
63% of organizations that have suffered a data breach implement biometric authentication: 5 things to know
Biometrics may one day replace passwords, or at least that is what a recent Veridium survey revealed. - 4/18/18 -
UnityPoint Health warns patients after employee falls victim to phishing scam
Several Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health employees' email accounts were compromised and accessed by unauthorized individuals between Nov. 1, 2017 and Feb. 8 2018, according to HIPAA Journal. - 4/17/18 -
Top seven ways patient records are accessed by unauthorized parties
According to the Protenus Breach Barometer report, over 5.5 million records were stolen or exposed as a result of 477 reported healthcare data breaches in 2017. - 4/17/18 -
Report: Top 5 causes of healthcare breaches in Q1
Hacking and accidental disclosure each comprised almost one-third of breach incidents in the healthcare industry during the first quarter of 2018, according to a Beazley report. - 4/17/18 -
Here's how Allscripts recovered from its January ransomware attack: 12 takeaways
In January, Allscripts clients were locked out of their cloud-based EHRs for days when the security operations center was crippled by a ransomware variant known as SamSam — a favorite among hackers targeting healthcare organizations. - 4/17/18 -
63% of Americans more concerned about cybersecurity than a potential war, survey finds
The majority of Americans — 79 percent — believe businesses are more focused on profits than addressing security needs, according to an IBM survey. - 4/16/18 -
NYC Health + Hospitals notifies 600 after laptop containing PHI goes missing
About 595 NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem patients received letters notifying them to a potential compromise of their protected health information after a laptop went missing from the facility in January. - 4/16/18 -
Texas Health data breach may have exposed 4k patients' medical records
Arlington-based Texas Health Resources is notifying about 4,000 patients who received care in 2017 that their protected health information may have been breached when an unauthorized third party potentially gained access to some employees' email accounts. - 4/16/18 -
Inogen reports breach of 30k customers' personal information
Inogen, an oxygen supply device manufacturer, is notifying 30,000 existing and former customers their personal data may have been improperly accessed, Reuters reports. - 4/13/18 -
Atlanta's ransomware attack cost $2.7M
A cyberattack that shut down most of the City of Atlanta's networks is going to cost taxpayers nearly $2.7 million — a steeper price tag than the $50,000 ransom hackers demanded — Channel 2 Action News reports. - 4/12/18 -
Hackers claim they can breach a hospital in less than 5 hours: 10 report insights
Most hackers claim they are able to break into their victims' computer systems, determine their most valuable data and extract it within 15 hours, according to recent survey exploring the minds of hackers. - 4/11/18 -
Registration employee at West Kendall Baptist Hospital misused patients' credit card information
A registration employee at Miami-based West Kendall Baptist Hospital exploited patient credit card information to make personal purchases, the hospital discovered March 9. - 4/11/18 -
Report: 94% of IT pros concerned about moving to the cloud — 4 survey insights
IT decision makers aren't all that confident about moving to the cloud, according to a recent survey commissioned by iboss, a cloud-based web security solution provider. - 4/11/18 -
Healthcare — The only industry where insider threats outnumber external threats
Healthcare marks the only industry where insider threats are more prevalent than those from the outside, according to a Verizon report. - 4/11/18
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