Police in Tomball, Texas, are investigating a security incident that left thousands of patient medical records in a dumpster behind a strip mall, according to local news station KPRC.
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The number of reported vulnerabilities for medical devices and other technologies has more than doubled since 2016, with more than 1,302 flaws registered in 2018, according to SF Gate.
After nearly two weeks since being infected with ransomware, Baltimore city health officials and other departments are still unable to access systems, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Seattle-based Bloodworks, Northwest is notifying 1,893 patients of a March data breach that may have exposed patients' personal information.
A Paramus, N.J.-based orthopedic surgeon is alerting patients that their personal information may have been exposed due to a ransomware attack in January at his practice.
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Although 69 percent of data breaches are perpetrated by outsiders, for healthcare organizations, the majority of threats— 59 percent — are internal players, according to data from Verizon's Data Breach Investigation Report.
An employee at Independent Health emailed the information of 7,600 members on March 19 to an unauthorized individual, according to local NBC affiliate WGRZ.
Hennepin Healthcare activated a command center in the evening of May 14 after learning that versions of Microsoft's Windows operating systems had a vulnerability that could be used similar to the WannaCry worm, according to the Star Tribune.
An employee at Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica stole patient data between April 2017 and March 2019, the U.S. Secret Service alleges, according to 13abc.
University of California San Diego delayed notifying women in an HIV research study that their information may have been exposed in October, an inewsource investigation discovered.