By Jill McKeon
May 15, 2023 – Long-term care pharmacy network PharMerica disclosed a breach to the Maine Attorney General’s Office that impacted more than 5.8 million individuals. PharMerica is a Fortune 1000 company headquartered in…
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By Jill McKeon
May 15, 2023 – Uintah Basin Healthcare (UBH) recently notified 103,974 individuals of a healthcare data breach that potentially compromised the protected health information of patients. UBH first discovered suspicious network activity on…
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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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Nicko van Someren, Chief Technology Officer at Absolute SoftwareIn IBM’s 2022 Cost of a Data Breach report, the company revealed that the global average cost of a data breach was $4.35 million. In the…
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A new lawsuit against NextGen Healthcare filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is class status following exposure of consumer information including social security numbers, names, dates of birth and…
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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 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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The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3), which was created by the Department of Health and Human Services, is sounding the alarm on two ransomware groups that are actively targeting the healthcare sector: Cl0p…
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1. Create and Maintain an Inventory of PartnersIt seems obvious, but before you can manage the risk, you must identify it. That means identifying the third parties that may present a risk of data…
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