By Jill McKeon
May 11, 2023 – The New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) reported a breach to HHS that impacted 49,000 individuals. The breach occurred when DOH discovered that a spreadsheet containing information about individual…
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By Jill McKeon
May 10, 2023 – Kansas-based McPherson Hospital recently notified 19,020 individuals of a healthcare data breach. According to the May 4 notice, McPherson Hospital fell victim to a ransomware attack on July 12,…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 09, 2023 – SuperCare Health has agreed to a data breach settlement totaling $2.25 million in a class-action lawsuit filed by plaintiff Vickey Angulo and class members, who alleged the organization’s “reckless”…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 08, 2023 – Rising password breaches accelerate the adoption of password-less authentication methods such as biometrics, passkeys, and security keys as 41 percent of IT decision-makers accredited these practices to better identity…
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By Jill McKeon
May 05, 2023 – Tennessee-based Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter (MMC) is actively recovering a “sophisticated criminal cyberattack” that it suffered on April 22, its website states.
In response to the attack, MMC immediately…
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By Jill McKeon
May 04, 2023 – An Iowa woman filed a lawsuit against the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (UIHC) over its use of tracking pixels. As previously reported, companies like Google and Meta,…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 04, 2023 – 90 Degree Benefits, a health insurance company, is in hot water as a proposed class-action lawsuit emerges, following a data breach that jeopardized the privacy of more than 181,543…
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By Jill McKeon
May 03, 2023 – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alerted healthcare providers and laboratory personnel of a cybersecurity vulnerability that impacts the Universal Copy Service (UCS) software in select Illumina medical…
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By Jill McKeon
May 01, 2023 – Healthcare data breaches continue to impact large and small organizations across the country, as exemplified by the most recent batch of data breach notifications outlined below.
Graceworks Lutheran Services Breach…
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By Jill McKeon
April 28, 2023 – California-based Santa Clara Health Plan (SCHP) reported a breach tied to a known vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) solution that impacted 276,993 individuals. As previously…
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