Nine employees within Oregon's Department of Human Services opened a phishing email on Jan. 8 that may have exposed around 645,000 people, according to the Statesman Journal.
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After disclosing a March data breach that exposed millions of patients' health information, the American Medical Collection Agency has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to SC Magazine.
Piles of personal medical information have been blowing away after being left in an alley outside a shuttered Illinois medical facility, according to CBS Chicago.
The spread of medical misinformation around topics like vaccines and statin medications is increasingly threatening U.S. and global health. In order to combat this, medical, scientific, regulatory and law enforcement organizations must employ an active cyber response plan to mitigate…
A Boardman, Ohio-based urology program was cyberattacked on June 10, with hackers demanding $75,000 in bitcoin for the encrypted files, according to local NBC affiliate WFMJ.
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Thomas August became the chief information security officer of John Muir Health in Walnut Creek, Calif., in 2015, after serving as the director of information security at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare.
Forsyth, Ga.-based Monroe County Hospital mailed letters to 10,970 patients to alert them that their personal health information may have been exposed, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Two flaws were discovered in a workstation used to dock an infusion pump commonly used at hospitals that could allow hackers to remotely hijack and control the device, according to TechCrunch.
It all happened in less than 48 hours: a ransomware attack, vital hospital computer systems shut down, a bitcoin payment secured on the dark web, and decryption codes used to make systems operational again. A cyberattack no one saw coming…
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health patients filed a lawsuit against the health system for allegedly sharing patients' private information, attained through the health system's website, with technology giants such as Facebook and Google, Courthouse News Service reports.