Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Healthcare , Industry Specific Ardent Health Services Operates 30 Hospitals, 200 Other Care Facilities in 6 States Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • November 27, 2023 Hillcrest Hospital in Claremore, Ok. is one of the Ardent Health Services facilities affected by a ransomware attack on the organization.(Image: Ardent Health […]
The US cybersecurity agency CISA has published new guidance to help healthcare and public health organizations understand the cyber threats and risks to their sector and apply mitigations. Titled Mitigation Guide: Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector (PDF), the document was released as a supplemental companion to a Cyber Risk Summary distributed in July, and […]
3rd Party Risk Management , Breach Notification , Cybercrime Northwell Health Among Perry Johnson & Associates’ Healthcare Clients Affected Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • November 15, 2023 A data theft incident at medical transcription firm PJ&A has affected at least 9 million patients. (Image: Perry Johnson & Associates) The number of healthcare organizations […]
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response Cook County Health Says It Is Among the Vendor’s ‘Many’ Clients Affected by Hack Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • November 8, 2023 Image: Getty A major healthcare provider in Chicago that targets underserved populations is notifying as many as 1.2 million patients […]
Threat actors have compromised sensitive health data on tens of millions of US patients so far this year, according to new figures released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The HHS said that there had been a 239% increase in “large breaches” reported to its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the […]
Dive Brief: Nearly 5,000 current and former employees at Okta had their sensitive health information exposed by a cyberattack at Rightway Healthcare, a third-party vendor for the identity and access management provider, according to data breach notices filed Wednesday in California and Maine. The third-party breach did not impact Okta services, which remain secure, and […]
A Massachusetts-based medical management company has agreed to a $100,000 settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services following a 2017 ransomware attack. The company, Doctors’ Management Services — which provides medical billing and payer credentialing services — was attacked by the now-defunct GandCrab ransomware gang in April 2017, but the intrusion was […]
A potential data breach in Philadelphia’s email system may have exposed protected health information, including names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, medical information, and some financial information.
On October 2, 2023, Arietis Health, LLC filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Texas after discovering that a hacker exploited a vulnerability in the file-transfer application MOVEit, which was used by Arietis Health. In this notice, Arietis Health explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to […]