Legacy systems’ lack of vendor support makes them particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks, says the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights in a bulletin issued Friday. click here to read full...
Ransomware attacks are continuing to threaten the U.S. and global healthcare sectors, in part due to many entities’ high dependency on legacy systems and lack of security resources, according to HC3. click here to...
Hacking incidents, especially those involving ransomware attacks and vendors, continue to rack up large victim counts in breaches being posted in recent weeks to the federal health data breach tally. click here to read...
Desert Wells Family Medicine says it is attempting to reconstruct thousands of patients’ health records following a May ransomware attack that badly corrupted the records as well as backup data. click here to read...
Health care entities should review system inventories to find PACS and ensure all vulnerabilities are patched or protected from public access, according to a recent HHS alert. click here to read full Article Read...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office found areas where HHS could better coordinate its efforts to support department information sharing and overall health IT security. click here to read full Article Read More on latest...
About 70 major health data breaches have been added to the federal tally in the last four weeks as ransomware attacks have persisted and breaches at vendors have affected clients. click here to read...
As healthcare organizations continue to fall victim to phishing incidents, the number of individuals affected by health data breaches involving compromised email accounts continues to rise. click here to read full Article Read More...
A third-party claims administrator of health and social services programs for the elderly paid a ransom to Netwalker attackers about a month before law enforcement disrupted the gang in January. click here to read...
A California-based eye care provider says its online storage vendor was recently hit by hackers and paid a ransom for the return of patient data stolen from both entities. Click here for image source...
A 2014 knowledge breach at Group Health Methods that uncovered the safeguarded health and fitness details of 6.1 million persons has led to another round of govt penalties amounting to $5 million. Impression and...
As tally of claimed heath information breaches associated to the May perhaps ransomware attack on Blackbaud continues to climb, so do the selection of lawsuits submitted towards the cloud-based mostly fundraising program vendor. Picture...
For the next time this week, federal regulators have doled out a hefty economic penalty as a part of a HIPAA settlement just after an investigation of a breach tied to a hacking incident....
