Data breaches or leaks involving health or medical data.
SiliconAngle reports: Hackers have stolen the personal data of more than 8.4 million patients from Welltok Inc., a Denver-based company that provides software for healthcare organizations. Welltok first disclosed the breach in October without sharing the full details of the incident. On Wednesday, it revealed that the hackers had stolen information belonging to some 8,493,379 […]
Bleeping Computer reports: The former chief operating officer of a cybersecurity company has pleaded guilty to hacking two hospitals, part of the Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC), in June 2021 to boost his company’s business. Vikas Singla, who worked for Securolytics, a network security company that provided services to the healthcare industry, pleaded guilty to hacking […]
Breaches at third-party vendors or business associates continue to compromise millions of patients’ information in 2023. TechCrunch reports: Close to nine million patients had highly sensitive personal and health information stolen during a cyberattack on a U.S. medical transcription service earlier this year, representing one of the worst medical-related data breaches in recent times. The […]
Five hospitals in southwest Ontario are still working to restore services and predict that while services are being restored, it may take months to figure out who was affected by a recent ransomware attack on their IT vendor, TransForm SSO, that resulted in locked files and the theft of millions of data files and records […]
Supply chain attacks continue to pose a major threat to the security of sensitive data and critical systems. Five hospitals in Ontario, Canada have been struggling to function this month after a ransomware group hit their IT and services provider. DataBreaches.net broke the news when the Daixin Team revealed that they were responsible for the […]
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with Doctors’ Management Services, a Massachusetts medical management company that provides a variety of services, including medical billing and payor credentialing. The HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification […]
Several days ago, The Data Breach Times noted an article expressing concern about cybersecurity in India. That article, which referenced data from a study by Check Point, also noted that one of the main sectors being attacked during the past six months was healthcare. Data leaks due to misconfigured storage devices also continue to pose […]
Newsday reports: A Lake Success-based home health care company reached a $350,000 settlement with the state after failing to protect the health care data of more than 316,800 New Yorkers, the state attorney general said Wednesday. Personal Touch Holding Corp., which provides home health care and hospice services through subsidiary companies, had an “informal and […]
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a settlement with Broomfield Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC. The settlement arose from a 2021 data breach affecting patient and employee data. The state claimed that Broomfield violated a number of state laws that are specifically identified in the assurance of discontinuance (settlement). The following is the press […]
2023 Ponemon Healthcare Cybersecurity Report
In its second annual Study on Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare, Proofpoint sponsored a Ponemon survey of 653 IT and IT security practitioners to find out how much progress the industry has made in the past year. Here are just a few highlights from this year’s report: You can access the full report on Proofpoint’s website.