By Jill McKeon
January 24, 2024 – Singing River Health System in Mississippi suffered a ransomware attack in August 2023 that resulted in a data breach. The breach impacted 252,890 individuals in total, according to a…
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By Jill McKeon
December 15, 2023 – Illinois-based Harrisburg Medical Center (HMC) filed a data breach notice with the Maine Attorney General’s Office regarding a December 2022 breach. The breach impacted 147,826 individuals in total.
HMC’s notice…
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By Jill McKeon
December 13, 2023 – New York Attorney General (NYAG) Letitia James reached a settlement with Healthplex, a large dental insurance provider, following a data breach that occurred in November 2021. Healthplex agreed to…
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By Jill McKeon
November 22, 2023 – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a cybersecurity vulnerability mitigation guide for the healthcare sector, stressing the importance of remediating known vulnerabilities and reducing risk across the…
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By Jacqueline LaPointe
November 01, 2023 – Minority groups are at risk following the recent 23andMe data breach that has resulted in health data and personally identifiable information (PII) of certain minority groups exposed on the…
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By Jill McKeon
October 27, 2023 – The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) urged the sector to prioritize monitoring and upgrading SolarWinds systems following a series of cybersecurity vulnerability disclosures.
SolarWinds recently released security fixes for…
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By Jill McKeon
October 25, 2023 – The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center’s (HC3) latest white paper examined the risks of “quishing,” or QR code-based phishing attacks. The growing popularity of quick response (QR) codes, which…
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By Jill McKeon
October 20, 2023 – A cybersecurity vulnerability in ServiceNow, a cloud computing platform, may allow unauthenticated users to extract data from records, a cybersecurity researcher discovered in mid-October. The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination…
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By Jill McKeon
October 17, 2023 – Revenue cycle management company Arietis Health notified more than 1.9 million individuals of a data breach stemming from the MOVEit Transfer hack. As previously reported, entities across all sectors…
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By Victoria Bailey
October 04, 2023 – The American Hospital Association (AHA) has urged Congress and the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to withdraw the rule related to online tracking technologies, arguing that it violates…
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