Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island notified 1,567 members that an unnamed vendor responsible for sending members' benefits explanations breached their personal healthcare information, according to a media statement shared with Becker's Hospital Review.
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
The Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific in Honolulu is notifying 40,800 patients to a potential data breach after it fell victim to a ransomware attack in June, according to HHS' Office for Civil Rights breach portal.
Healthcare is the only industry vertical with more insiders causing data breaches, as opposed to external actors or partners, according to Verizon's 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report.
A new analysis by Clemson (S.C.) University researchers and shared with The Wall Street Journal revealed nearly 600 Twitter accounts tweeting ACA information meant to further polarize voters were linked to a Russian company.
Compliancy Group, which markets a web-based solution to assist with HIPAA compliance, rolled out a free online HIPAA quiz Sept. 12 to help organization assess their knowledge of the data privacy legislation.
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The Arc of Erie County, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based nonprofit that serves people with developmental disabilities, agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty to the state of New York to resolve allegations it violated HIPAA in a yearslong data breach.
Although many organizations expect data breaches to damage their reputation, the negative effect on a company's financial performance is short-lived, according to a Comparitech study.
Roughly 91 of the 229 data breaches submitted to HHS' Office for Civil Rights' breach portal this year are listed as hacking or IT incidents, and another 91 are listed as unauthorized access or disclosure breaches.
Jigar Kadakia, chief information security and privacy officer at Boston-based Partners HealthCare, discusses the impact that a breach in cybersecurity can have on the healthcare ecosystem.
The Department of Justice on Sept. 6 said it was charging a North Korean programmer in the 2017 "WannaCry" ransomware attack and two other high-profile hacks dating as far back as 2014, The Hill reports.