Box Elder, Mont.-based Rocky Boy Health Center posted a security breach notice on its website, alerting patients of a Jan. 14 incident that may have put medical records at risk.
Cybersecurity
As more companies increase their cybersecurity measures and awareness, cybercriminals have started altering their techniques to focus more on return on investment, according to IBM's "2019 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index" report.
Farmington-based University of Connecticut Health sent letters to up to 326,000 patients notifying them of a recent data security incident.
Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center said it plans to mail letters to an undisclosed number of affected patients notifying them of a recent data breach.
In response to recent large-scale data breaches and cyberattacks in the healthcare industry, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., sent a letter to various healthcare associations asking them to describe their current cybersecurity efforts and what improvements need to be made, according…
Advertisement
Seattle-based UW Medicine sent letters to 974,000 patients notifying them of a Dec. 4, 2018, data error that allowed patient information to come up in internet searches.
Netskope, a cloud security provider, now provides continuous security assessment and monitoring capabilities for Google Cloud customers.
Healthcare data protection company Protenus revealed there were 222 hacking incidents in 2018, up nearly 25 percent from 2017. Of these data breaches, more than 11 million patient records were affected, CBS News reports.
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport (Miss.) sent letters to roughly 30,000 patients Feb. 15 notifying them of a data breach, according to the HIPAA journal.
Facebook allegedly released protected and sensitive health information of members in different private and public groups, according to a Federal Trade Commission complaint.