Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

2023: A Year of Record-Breaking Data Breaches IdentityIQ This past year has been an eye-opening year in the realm of digital security. Data breaches reached an all-time high, leaving a trail of identity theft cases. Behind the statistics, a disturbing trend emerged: data theft and extortion-only attacks rose sharply.

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Cytelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The healthcare industry has witnessed a rapid digital transformation, with hospitals, clinics, and medical practices relying heavily on technology to store and manage patient data, streamline operations, and improve patient care. Patient records, insurance information, and intellectual property are just a few examples.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Securing the healthcare data warehouses themselves is equally vital to ensure the software applications’ security in their development and maintenance. The health data warehouse ecosystem’s integrity and durability depend on software development techniques.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The United States Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) security team (the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center or HC3) released a report detailing how Royal ransomware has been used to target the healthcare sector. Since the beginning of the pandemic, cyberattacks targeting healthcare have increased dramatically.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2022

million patients have been exposed to a ransomware infection after a Colorado-based debt collection firm serving hundreds of medical facilities and hospitals across America was breached. We’ve spoken with several cybersecurity experts to hear their insights about this breach. More than 1.9

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The healthcare industry has poured vast resources into cybersecurity since 2015, when a surge of major breaches began. While the nature of these breaches has evolved over the last four years, the growth in total healthcare incidents has unfortunately continued unabated. Related: How to get of HIPAA hit list.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare Organizations Need to Adapt Their Data Protection Policies to the New Threat Environment. Healthcare providers are at the epicenter of the fight against coronavirus. Given this, healthcare organizations need to advance their security efforts to adapt to this shifting environment. Tue, 11/17/2020 - 06:44.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 23, 2018

While it’s no surprise to anybody reading this that data breaches are on the rise, the attacks facing healthcare organizations, most recently in Asia, are particularly worrisome. Before being introduced, healthcare organizations must be able to trust IoT devices. Protecting Sensitive Data. Consequences.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2020

Cloud software provider Blackbaud revealed to have paid crooks to decrypt its data following a ransomware attack that took place in May 2020. ” reads the data breach notification published by Blackbaud. The post Cloud computing provider Blackbaud paid a ransom after data breach appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how healthcare enterprises can not only meet these challenges, but go beyond compliance to best practice to secure their data and their reputations. The Meaningful Use portion of the HITECH Act provided healthcare organizations a carrot to encourage the adoption of electronic health records.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The exposed database, containing more than 17 billion records, has raised concerns about the security of sensitive healthcare provider information and negotiated rates for medical procedures. Cigna Health data exposed The exposed database contained a staggering 17,187,743,574 records, spanning across 6.35 terabytes of data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The gang also published a sample as proof of the stolen data. The group is known to have a role for its affiliated that prohibits attacking healthcare organizations. Its policy forbids to encrypt systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals. Other ransomware attacks recently hit US hospitals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

In 2021, the LockBit Ransomware group breached the servers of New York-based law firm HPMB and stole sensitive information from one of its healthcare-related clients. In response to a class action lawsuit, HPMB agreed to pay $200,000 to settle the data breach suit filed by its customer.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

A Financial service offering company to healthcare industry has admitted that a ransomware attack on its data firm could have led to a data breach affecting over 600 healthcare establishments.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2023

The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Center is the healthcare facility that is in discussion and federal government agencies are trying to contain the incident on the servers of the facility, which is part of the Sydney West Cancer Network. According to sources, a hack has exposed data of over 780,000 children who were patients of Brightline.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Security experts at Symantec linked the massive Singapore Healthcare breach suffered by SingHealth to the ‘Whitefly’ cyberespionage group. In 2018, the largest healthcare group in Singapore, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal information of 1.5 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Like other ransomware gangs, Lorenz operators also implement double-extortion model by stealing data before encrypting it and threatening them if the victim doesn’t pay the ransom. The group is known to have a role for its affiliates that prohibits attacking healthcare organizations.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In a groundbreaking move, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has unveiled a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that aims to safeguard the state's critical infrastructure, specifically its healthcare sector. This proactive approach will undoubtedly strengthen patient trust and confidence in New York's healthcare system.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Advanced, the IT services provider of NHS has confirmed that a ransomware attack on its servers that took place in August this year led to data breach. However, the firm isn’t prepared yet to confirm the leak of patient data in the attack.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

The Blackbaud data breach was the largest health care-related incident of 2020, impacting an estimated two dozen providers and well over 10 million patients. Now, 2,565 patients of addiction treatment center Alina Lodge are being notified that their data was compromised during the massive vendor incident more than a year ago.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

. “For years, ransomware developers and affiliates have been telling victims that they must pay the ransom or stolen data would be publicly released,” said Lawrence Abrams , founder of the computer security blog and victim assistance site BleepingComputer.com. “Ransomware attacks are now data breaches,” Abrams said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 15, 2021

In a recent survey conducted by Cybersecurity Firm Tenable, over 106 million healthcare records were exposed to hackers during the time of past 14 months. And analysis says that most of the records were leaked from the databases of organizations operating in the healthcare sector. percent breaches on a respective note.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2024

The healthcare organization notified law enforcement and hired third-party forensic and information technology experts to assist. The gang announced its has stolen Over 7 terabytes of medical confidentiality data valued at $250,000. “We purposely didn’t encrypt this hospital so as not to interfere with patient care.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While investigating a data breach suffered by a healthcare organization, FBI accidentally revealed that it believes that the HelloKitty ransomware gang operates out of Ukraine. ” reads the notice of data breach published by the Oregon Anesthesiology Group. “Oregon Anesthesiology Group, P.C.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A decade and a bit ago during my tenure at Pfizer, a colleague's laptop containing information about customers, healthcare providers and other vendors was stolen from their car. The machine had full disk encryption and it's not known whether the thief was ever actually able to access the data. Is this a data breach?

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 5, 2021

Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in IT, healthcare, and cleantech, reported a data breach to the Office of the Maine Attorney General this week. The company says its internal servers were encrypted with a ransomware attack. Advanced Technology Venture ransomware attack.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

All data remains subject to the laws and regulations of its home country, regardless of where it resides. Additionally, in highly regulated sectors such as finance or healthcare or state and local government entities, organizations need to meet additional compliance laws and mandates.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

In recent years, there has been an explosion of almost unbelievable data breaches making news headlines that have resulted in anything but a positive outcome for the organizations involved. As the world we live in has become much more digital in nature, information and data volumes are increasing exponentially.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to those few groups, their cybercriminal actions would never include organizations actively involved in healthcare, such as hospitals. Unfortunately, we have seen these type of disruptions in healthcare before. Stop malicious encryption. But, as can be expected from ransomware groups, these were nothing but lies.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Nominate Pierluigi Paganini and Security Affairs here here: [link] Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

The hospital provides a range of medical services and healthcare facilities to the local community and surrounding areas. The LockBit ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack and on May 1st published stolen confidential data after the hospital refused to pay the ransom.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. According to the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report – Financial Services Edition , 52% of U.S. million, second only to healthcare.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S. In the U.S., for example, all 50 states (along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S.

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

billion to data breaches and cybercrime. Email encryption Companies rely on email to distribute important information, but when that information is confidential and sensitive, you need an encryption tool to protect it. And those attacks are costing companies a lot of money. In 2022, American businesses lost $10.3

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2021

Source: BBC News) Canada Post hit by data breach after supplier ransomware attack. In our podcast Lock and Code we shone a light on dark patterns with Carey Parker. Other cybersecurity news: Eight arrests in Royal Mail text scam investigation. Source: The Hacker News) Studying the manipulation of security headers in browser extensions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

And studies have revealed that the newly developed file-encrypting malware is using an Open-source password management library for encryption and is having capabilities of remaining anonymous, ex-filtrate data, and having abilities to give control to remote servers. The third is something astonishing to read!

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