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.
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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.
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Microsoft is alerting users of its operating systems that a bug, which it has since released patches for, could be used as a cyber-weapon similar to the WannaCry worm, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Security researchers uncovered two vulnerabilities in Cisco enterprise routers that could allow hackers to remotely and fully compromise a router's network without alerting the user, Wired reports.
A phishing attack on an employee's email account at Oregon State Hospital may have exposed patients' protected health information, KTVZ reports.
Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System is notifying more than 600 patients that their financial information may have been exposed, local CBS affiliate KHOU reports.
Rhode Island is creating a hotline for victims of cybercrime, according to the Politico Morning Cybersecurity newsletter.