Security Boulevard

MARCH 2, 2023

When personal information is stolen in a data breach, each compromised data point poses a different risk to the victim. Stolen email addresses and phone numbers can lead to an increase in phishing attempts, while Social Security numbers could be used by cybercriminals to conduct instances of identity theft.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2022

SuperCare Health, a California based healthcare firm that deals with patients suffering from respiratory ailments, has posted a data breach notice on its website. Currently, there is no evidence that the stolen details were used/being used in any of the identity theft campaigns.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

The healthcare sector continues to be a high priority target for malicious threat actors, as it has been throughout the pandemic. Broward Health, a large healthcare system in South Florida, disclosed a data breach that impacts more than 1.3 What information was compromised in Broward Health data breach?

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ransomware continues to pose an alarming threat to critical infrastructure, with the healthcare sector being particularly vulnerable to its devastating effects. This highlights the domino effect that ransomware attacks can have on healthcare delivery at a regional level, categorizing them as a regional disaster. and globally.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Utah-based radiology medical center Utah Imaging Associates discloses a data breach that impacted 583,643 former and current patients. Utah Imaging Associates (UIA) discloses a security breach, on September 4, 2021 the company claims to have detected and blocked a cyber attack. Utah Imaging Associates also notified the U.S.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

The radiology specialist and its vendor Alliance HealthCare are being sued by patients impacted by its nine-month, PACS-related health care data breach. The lawsuit was filed in the New York Southern District Court by some of the 298,532 patients impacted by a PACS-related data breach reported in March 2020.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Healthcare company Norton says a May breach led to the theft of data of around 2.5 In a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Friday, Norton said that on May 9, 2023, it discovered an “external system breach.” They also filed a SEC complaint about one of their victims for failing to disclose a breach.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Broward Health public health system disclosed a massive data breach that has impacted more than 1.3 The Broward Health public health system has suffered a data breach that impacted 1,357,879 individuals. Located in Broward County, Florida, Broward Health currently operates more than 30 healthcare facilities.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2022

Over the last few years, particularly since the start of the pandemic, malicious threat actors have increasingly targeted the healthcare sector. It's often a lucrative situation for cybercriminals, as sensitive medical data can fetch a high price on the Dark Web. But why do we keep seeing these data breaches from large organizations?

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

million patients affected by a data breach. million patients affected by its nine-year data breach, first reported in 2019. The lawsuit also took issue with Dominion National’s breach notice, particularly as patients were not informed of the precise data accessed during the incident.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The healthcare industry might be known for the work it does to treat patients. With copious amounts of data collected by healthcare facilities, cybercriminals often target such entities. Moreover, the healthcare industry collects unique data, known as Protected Health Information (PHI), which is extremely valuable.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Adaptive Health Integrations (AHI), a healthcare software and billing services firm in North Dakota, suffered a data breach that affected more than half a million individuals. Both firms made their announcements days apart.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Canadian healthcare organization Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) has disclosed a data breach affecting client data. A subsequent investigation has shown that during the breach, unauthorized copies of files containing personal health information were taken from BORN’s systems.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In a chilling reminder of the vulnerability of critical healthcare infrastructure, Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Fred Hutch) fell victim to a sophisticated cyberattack in November 2023. This attack, targeting sensitive patient data and disrupting vital operations, has sent shockwaves through the medical community and beyond.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

On June 16, authorities in Michigan arrested 29-year-old Justin Sean Johnson in connection with a 43-count indictment on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The fraudulent tax refund claims made in the names of UPMC identity theft victims caused the IRS to issue $1.7

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) disclose a data breach after MOVEit attack on IBM. The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) disclosed a data breach that impacted more than four million individuals. ” reads the reads the notice. by the company.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) disclosed a data breach that affected almost 270,000 patients at its medical centers. The Lake Charles Memorial Health System is the largest not-for-profit community healthcare system in Southwest Louisiana. ” reads the data breach notification published by LCMHS.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The digital age has brought unprecedented opportunities and profound challenges in an increasingly interconnected world, particularly privacy and data protection. In the context of data breaches, class-action lawsuits allow affected individuals to unite against entities responsible for failing to safeguard their personal information.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic Identity Theft: What It Is and How It Works IdentityIQ You work hard to protect your identity. But despite your diligence, there’s a form of identity theft that’s becoming increasingly prevalent and is notoriously difficult to detect — synthetic identity theft.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Additionally, identity theft protection services will be offered to individuals affected by the attack. However, the incident does highlight the potential risks associated with third-party vendors and the need for companies to have robust cybersecurity measures in place to protect their sensitive data.

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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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SecureWorld News

JUNE 30, 2021

We have seen it a few times during the pandemic, with cybercriminals targeting the healthcare sector to steal information on anything related to COVID-19. However, as a result of the Data Breach, both the past lab results and future lab orders that Rubenstein had through July 2021 were inaccessible to him.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 30, 2021

We have seen it a few times during the pandemic, with cybercriminals targeting the healthcare sector to steal information on anything related to COVID-19. However, as a result of the Data Breach, both the past lab results and future lab orders that Rubenstein had through July 2021 were inaccessible to him.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

US healthcare firm EmCare Inc disclosed that a number of employees’ email accounts had been accessed, potentially exposing personal information of almost 60,000 people, including 31,000 patients. SecurityAffairs – EmCare, data breach). “ EmCare , Inc. ” concludes the notice. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

” While that is good news from a healthcare perspective, the ransomware operators did obtain something of value. There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Check the vendor's advice.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and potential exploitation by threat actors. To secure sensitive data, cybersecurity specialists, software vendors, and end users should encourage collaborative efforts against malicious activities.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

University and college databases often store a wide variety of valuable information, everything from loans and bank account information to social security numbers and passport information — even healthcare data. It goes deeper. Even businesses used by universities are being targeted. Turn the auto-updates on. Monitor Your Credit.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

” reads the data breach notice issued by the company. It is not the first time that Magellan and its subsidiaries suffer a data breach, in 2019 Magellan Rx Management , National Imaging Associates , and Magellan Healthcare subsidiaries were impacted by cyber attacks. ” concludes the company.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

“That medical histories were accessed in this data hack makes this situation unique,” Scott Cole, the principal attorney on the case, said in a statement. Despite hundreds of data breaches every year in this country, most do not involve such highly sensitive patient information as was obtained here.”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In fact, “the number of publicly reported data compromises in the U.S. through September of 2021 has already surpassed the total number of compromises in 2020 by 17%, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).” In 2022, ransomware attacks will continue at an alarming pace and will be more targeted.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2023

Adding more embarrassment to last year’s Twitter Data Breach, a new finding on the web has discovered a new database dump exposed on an online hacking forum. It appears to be a big data leak as information related to about 235 million users was found by a cyber intelligence firm named Hudson Rock, based in Israel.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

. “According to the actors, they were able to steal sensitive and personal information including but not limited to last name, first name, sex, age, contact details, medical history, and related local healthcare identifiers” reads the post published by Resecurity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It applies to any organization that manages data of 10,000 or more U.S. It was enacted to prevent and mitigate identity theft, provide notice of security breaches, and enhance law enforcement assistance. At this point, almost every state has data privacy laws. citizens during any 12 months.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. And yet, according to Norton , data breaches for 2019 included 3,800 publicly disclosed breaches, 4.1 MFA awareness is not new to CISOs or IT teams.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to a skewed Electoral College, an undercount could decrease federal funding for crucial programs, potentially harming Medicaid, food stamps, public education as well as the quality and availability of healthcare. The 2010 Census had an overall undercount of only 0.01 percent, which is very good. percent of the Black population.

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