Opko Health is the third healthcare company to learn its patients were affected in the American Medical Collection Agency data breach, according to Reuters.
Cybersecurity
Since Jan. 1, hospitals and health systems have experienced varying sized data breaches. Some had to alert close to 1 million patients their information may have been exposed, while others only issued notices to a few hundred.
Hackers may soon be able to steal passwords and other data by simply analyzing the sounds of typing on different devices, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Medical testing company Laboratory Corp. of America learned 7.7 million of its patients may have had their data exposed in the same vendor breach as Quest Diagnostics, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Some personal information from University of Chicago Medicine patients and donors was mistakenly exposed on June 3, the health system confirmed to the Chicago Tribune.
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Premera Blue Cross has agreed to settle a data breach lawsuit that was brought against the insurer after a cyberattack in May 2014 exposed 10.6 million patients.
Numerous privacy incidents at hospitals, IT suppliers and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
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Jeff Tully, MD, pediatrician, anesthesiologist and security researcher affiliated with University of California Davis Medical Center, has extensive expertise in medical device cybersecurity.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America has learned that an email account of an employee at its Atlanta-based Southeastern Regional Medical Center was the target in a phishing attack that may have exposed 16,819 patients, according to the HIPAA Journal.