Data Breach News, Healthcare
May 15, 2025
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Ascension discloses multiple third-party data breaches

Over the course of the last year, Ascension Health has been affected by several third-party data breaches impacting its patients across multiple states. TechTarget reports: Ascension Health, a Missouri-based Catholic health system, has disclosed several third-party data breaches in 2025, impacting patients across its network of hospitals and care facilities. While Ascension posted notices for […]

Legal News, Healthcare
May 06, 2025
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Charlotte Clinic Owner Agrees To Settle Allegations Of Medicaid Fraud

A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of North Carolina: CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Steven Osbey, of Kernersville, N.C., has agreed to entry of a consent judgment against him in the amount of $4,711,159.00 in favor of the United States and State of North Carolina (the Governments), subject to a separate agreement regarding […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, News
May 01, 2025
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Texas HHSC Notifies Additional Individuals Regarding Wrongdoing by Employees

Texas Health and Human Services Commission April 30, 2025 AUSTIN – The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is notifying an additional 33,529 recipients of agency services and other affected individuals that their protected health, personal identifying or sensitive personal information may have been inappropriately accessed, used or disclosed. As a result of an internal […]

Vendor News, Healthcare, News
May 01, 2025
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Ctrl+Alt+Disaster: How Oracle techies ‘wrong click’ brought 45 out of 72 CHS hospitals to their knees for 5 days

The Economic Times reports: A software malfunction triggered by Oracle engineers led to a five-day outage at multiple Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals last week, forcing several facilities to switch to paper records after losing access to their digital systems. The disruption began on 23 April during scheduled maintenance, when Oracle personnel mistakenly deleted storage […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare
April 12, 2025
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Lab provider for Planned Parenthood discloses breach affecting 1.6 million people

The Record reports: A lab company providing services to some Planned Parenthood centers disclosed a data breach on Friday impacting about 1.6 million people. Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) said it initially discovered the cyberattack on October 27 and began an investigation that was completed in February.  The stolen data includes medical information like dates of […]

Healthcare, News
March 29, 2025
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Global Healthcare Faces Unprecedented Cybersecurity Crisis: Top 10 Countries at Highest Risk

Black Book Market Research unveiled results from its comprehensive Q1 2025 Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey of 1,200 healthcare administrators. The 2025 Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Risk ranking identified the United States, India, Brazil, China, Russia, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico as the 10 countries facing the greatest cybersecurity threats. Leading the list, the […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare
February 21, 2025
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Australian IVF Giant Genea Discloses Cybersecurity Incident Exposing Company Data

TechNadu reports: Genea, one of Australia’s leading fertility service providers, has revealed a cybersecurity breach that disrupted patient services and raised concerns about the potential exposure of sensitive information.   The company, which operates 21 clinics nationwide, confirmed the incident in a statement on its website on Wednesday. While Genea confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed its data, […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, News
December 21, 2024
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Ascension reveals a May ransomware attack affected 5.6 million patients (1)

It took them months to update their report, but Ascension has now disclosed how many patients were affected by a ransomware attack they disclosed earlier this year. Bleeping Computer reports: ​Ascension, one of the largest private U.S. healthcare systems, is notifying nearly 5.6 million patients and employees that their personal and health data was stolen […]