The Davis Clinic, which is owned by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's physicians organization, sent multiple mass emails exposing 2,800 email addresses primarily belonging to its patients, according to Chron.
Cybersecurity
Facebook removed 837 million instances of spam from its website in the first quarter of 2018, according to Guy Rosen, the company's vice president of product management.
Phishing campaigns tended to masquerade as one of three common applications during the first quarter of 2018, according to a Rapid7 report.
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center released an advisory May 8 detailing vulnerabilities discovered in a set of GE Healthcare and Silex Technology devices.
Black Book Market Research released its 2018 ranking of top cybersecurity services and solutions vendors for the healthcare industry May 14.
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The Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation is notifying 8,300 clients who were served from 2001 to 2010 that a database containing their demographic data was vulnerable for 10 months.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health notified 895 patients who were seen at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital or Laguna Honda Hospital — both of which are part of the San Francisco Health Network — that their information may…
Philips reported various vulnerabilities in its Brilliance CT scanners to the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, the center wrote in a May 3 advisory.
Baton Rouge, La.-based Eye Care Surgery Center is notifying 2,553 patients their protected health information may have been compromised after a laptop was stolen from its facility in February.
There have been almost 7,100 patient and employee complaints of HIPAA violations in the past five years, which have forced organizations to change their operations and pay substantial fines, according to an analysis by Health Information Privacy/Security Alert.