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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By Sarai Rodriguez
April 27, 2023 – Six individuals, including five former Methodist Hospital employees, face sentencing for HIPAA violations after pleading guilty to the unauthorized disclosure of personal health information (PHI) involving motor vehicle…
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By Jill McKeon
April 26, 2023 – As ransomware continues to impact organizations worldwide, cybersecurity leaders are increasingly recognizing the importance of investing resources into improving their security programs and processes. More than 90 percent…
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By Sarai Rodriguez April 25, 2023 – The Health 3rd Party Trust (Health3PT) Initiative has unveiled its first deliverables to tackle third-party cyber risk management (TPRM) in healthcare, backed by a rapidly growing membership of…
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By Jill McKeon April 24, 2023 – New data from asset visibility and security company Armis found that 1 in 5 connected medical devices run on unsupported operating systems (OS). To inform its research, Armis…
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By Jill McKeon April 24, 2023 – San Francisco-based John Muir Health (JMH) notified 821 patients of a security incident that occurred when an Excel file containing patient information was accidentally exposed to the internet….
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