Scammers have developed a vaccine registration site that mimics Kettering (Ohio) Health Network's COVID-19 vaccine scheduling webpage so they can procure patients' personal and banking information, the health system said Feb. 18.
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Hackley Community Care in Muskegon, Mich., has notified around 2,500 patients that their personal and health information was exposed during a phishing attack on employee email accounts last September.
Lawmakers around the nation have been pushing for state-level internet privacy laws, as life continues to advance online amid the pandemic, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted the hackers allegedly behind the creation of WannaCry, a ransomware that hit organizations across the globe in May 2017 including the U.K.'s national healthcare system, according to a Feb. 17 DOJ news release.
Research from Google shows that hackers can quickly find security flaws in previously patched bugs. Maddie Stone, a security researcher at Google, said that bugs are often only partially fixed allowing for previously undetected flaws, known as zero-day vulnerabilities, to…
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Grand River Medical Group is notifying 34,000 patients of a recent hacking incident that allowed an unauthorized individual to access the Dubuque, Iowa-based medical group's computer systems and view their protected health information.
Grass Valley, Calif.-based Granite Wellness Centers recently began notifying patients that their protected health information may have been exposed in a January ransomware attack on the center's computer systems.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service has accused North Korea of attempting to hack into pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's systems to steal COVID-19 vaccine technology, according to a Feb. 16 BBC report.
Yuba City, Calif.-based Sutter Buttes Imaging Medical Group is notifying patients that their protected health information may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals who hacked into its vendor's IT infrastructure in 2019.
Gillette, Wyo.-based Campbell County Health said it inadvertently emailed someone an attachment containing the private information of 900 patients.