Less than a week before Christmas day, St Vincent’s Health, one of Australia’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care providers, detected a breach in its IT system.On 19 December, it responded to the incident…
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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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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center patients are receiving extortion emails stemming from a reported data breach that occurred late last month.WHY IT MATTERS
Nick Quinlan, a Fred Hutch patient, was asked to pay 50 bitcoin to…
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center patients are receiving extortion emails stemming from a reported data breach that occurred late last month.WHY IT MATTERS
Nick Quinlan, a Fred Hutch patient, was asked to pay 50 bitcoin to…
Online tracking tools such as pixels are moving to the forefront of the debate about healthcare policy.The American Hospital Association and several allies in Texas last monthsued the U.S. Health and Human Services Office…
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Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has begun to contact patients who have been affected by a data breach at Musgrove Park Hospital.The trust announced at the end of last week that it had started to…
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Data breach affected 121 SA Health patients SA Health has recently disclosed a cyber incident that affected Personify Care, the third-party provider of digital patient pathways for its local health networks.
On 16 October, Personify Care detected a…
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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Steve Weber
AJ Grotto
The following is a guest article by Steve Weber, Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley, and AJ Grotto, Director, Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at Stanford University
Generative artificial intelligence…
