Greenville, Texas-based Hunt Memorial Hospital District has notified 3,700 patients that their medical records may have been exposed due to a criminal cyberattack.
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A Google salesman and lobbyist invited a top aide for Baltimore Mayor Bernard Young to compare its email and office software in an effort to lure city officials away from its competitor Microsoft, according to The Baltimore Sun.
Northwood, a Michigan HIPAA business associate, has notified more than 15,000 patients that a hacker had gained access to an employee's email account and potentially viewed their protected health information, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Data breaches have increased by 12 percent within the past five years, with the healthcare industry experiencing the highest costs at $6.5 million on average per breach, according to IBM Security's recent report.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America discovered on June 6 that an employee's email account at its Philadelphia-based Eastern Regional Medical Center was compromised in a phishing attack, according to the HIPAA Journal.
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Austin Pathology Associates is notifying patients about a data breach at one of its billing and collections vendors American Medical Collection Agency.
After Wise Health System fell victim to a phishing attack, the hackers used the information to access an employee's information in an attempt to reroute direct deposit checks, according to the Wise County Messenger.
Lab testing company Clinical Pathology Laboratories began notifying 2.2 million patients July 5 that their personal health information may have been exposed in a vendor data breach, according to SC Magazine.
Of the 70 percent of healthcare organizations that have experienced a data breach, one-third reported a security incident in the last year, according to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report — Healthcare Edition.
An April ransomware attack on Evansville, Ind.-based Talley Medical Surgical Eyecare Associates' network server and EHR system may have compromised 106,000 patient records, according to Spam Fighter.