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Group Health Cooperative data breach impacted 530,000 individuals

Security Affairs

Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin disclosed a data breach that impacted over 500,000 individuals. The Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHC-SCW) is a non-profit organization that provides health insurance and medical care services to its members in the Madison metropolitan area of Wisconsin.

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LA County Health Services: Patients' data exposed in phishing attack

Bleeping Computer

County's Department of Health Services, the second-largest public health care system in the United States, disclosed a data breach after patients' personal and health information was exposed in a data breach resulting from a recent phishing attack impacting over two dozen employees. [.]

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Online Health Firm Cerebral to Pay $7 Million for Sharing Private Data

Security Boulevard

Mental telehealth startup Cerebral says it will stop sharing sensitive consumer health information with third parties, make it easier for consumers to cancel services, and pay a $7 million to settle a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accusing the company of sharing data of 3.2 million users with third parties.

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US Health Dept warns hospitals of hackers targeting IT help desks

Bleeping Computer

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns that hackers are now using social engineering tactics to target IT help desks across the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. [.]

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Beware of Pixels & Trackers on U.S. Healthcare Websites

The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers.

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Cyber Public Health

Schneier on Security

In a lecture, Adam Shostack makes the case for a discipline of cyber public health. It would relate to cybersecurity in a similar way that public health relates to medicine.

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Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services Hack

Schneier on Security

Apparently, a nation-state hacked Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services. Not sure why Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services is of any interest to a nation-state, but that’s probably just my failure of imagination.

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