The recent outbreak of healthcare cyber attacks has led Microsoft to release a patch for their outdated operating systems (OSes). Although Microsoft usually does not issue [...]
In August of 2019, Mount Sinai Hospital, a part of the Mount Sinai Health System, began notifying approximately 33,000 patients that it has been impacted by the - American [...]
Providence Health Plan, a dental program in Oregon, may have experienced a PHI breach that risked the protected health information (PHI) of 122,000 patients. The breach was a result [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began tracking data breaches in 2009. The HHS publishes meaningful breaches on their "wall of shame.” A meaningful breach affects 500 [...]
PHI breaches happen for a number of reasons, whether from human error or phishing attacks, PHI breaches should be a cause for concern for anyone working [...]
A server used by Rhode Island Ear, Nose, and Throat Physicians Inc. (RIENT) was accessed by an unauthorized party, allowing hackers to access RIENT’s network. The protected health information [...]
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) experienced a healthcare breach that left 9,900 patients’ protected health information (PHI) exposed. Hackers gained access to MGH’s research databases through a third-party vendor. The [...]
Two incidents of database misconfiguration caused data breaches that affected 90,000 patients. Health vendor Medico and Amarin Pharma’s databases were exposed to the public, risking patients’ protected health information [...]
Harbor Medical Group, a multi-clinic covered entity in Washington State, was the target of a ransomware attack on Saturday, June 15, 2019. Two days later, the [...]
An employee of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) lost an unencrypted laptop on public transportation. The laptop contained the protected health information (PHI) of [...]
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