A cyberattack last July on Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health's employee email account system may have affected 278,016 patients' personal information, Spamfighter reports.
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Blue Cross of Idaho is notifying members of a March 21 data breach that allowed an unauthorized user to gain access to the organization's online provider portal.
Microsoft emailed an unknown number of users April 12 across its Outlook, MSN and Hotmail platforms alerting them of a data breach that occurred between Jan. 1 and March 28, according to Wired.
Almost half of consumers (45 percent) believe their protected health information is more securely stored on their personal electronic devices than their healthcare providers', according to a Morphisec survey.
Ovia Health, a developer of fertility, pregnancy and parenting-tracking apps, shares user data with employers and insurers as a way to monitor employees' health, The Washington Post reports.
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Columbia, S.C.-based Palmetto Health, now know as Prisma Health, was targeted in a phishing attack that may have put the information of 23,000 patients at risk, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center filed an appeal April 9, claiming the $4.3 million HIPAA fine that HHS imposed on the hospital was unlawful, according to GovInfoSecurity.com.
Hospitals and health systems within the U.S. account for around one-fourth of all U.S. cyberattacks, making healthcare the No. 1 industry targeted by data breaches, according to a survey from law firm BakerHostetler and cited by Corporate Counsel.
Most organizations (77 percent) do not have a cybersecurity incident response plan applied across their enterprise, according to a recent survey sponsored by IBM.
Amazon has thousands of employees around the globe who are tasked with listening to and transcribing Alexa conversations to help enhance the virtual assistant's understanding of human speech, Bloomberg reports.