New Jersey psychiatry practice pays $30,000 to settle complaint about impermissible disclosure of protected health information by disclosing this information in online review Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announces a settlement with Manasa Health Center, LLC, a health care provider in New Jersey that provides…
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South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources discloses ransomware attack
South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources has disclosed that they were hit with a ransomware attack on April 3. They do not indicate what group attacked them, or what any ransom demand may have been, and DataBreaches has not seen this incident on any leak site to date. According to their notification, “The investigation remains ongoing,…
Canopy Children’s Solutions continues to investigate ransomware attack in April
In early May, a new group of threat actors known as Nokoyawa added Canopy Children’s Solutions in Mississippi to their leak site. On June 2, Mississippi Children’s Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children’s Home Services, Inc., d.b.a. Canopy Children’s Solutions (“Canopy”) a press release acknowledging that on April 4, they experienced an attack that…
Mission Community Hospital attackers exploited vulnerabilites in Paragon and Cisco
As Mission Community Hospital in California continues to investigate a cyberattack in April, more details have emerged as to how the attack by RansomHouse threat actors occurred. As previously reported, the RansomHouse listing for Mission Community Hospital claimed to have 2.5 TB of data and provided some proof of claims. RansomHouse also included a note…
Ie: Patients’ info accidentally sent to unidentified individual by UL Hospitals Group
Ben Scallan reports: UL Hospitals Group, responsible for managing six hospitals in the midwest region, announced a significant data breach resulting in the inadvertent sharing of personal and medical information belonging to over 1,000 patients with an unknown third party. The breach occurred in January when a staff member mistakenly sent the data to an…
Radiology practice suffers ‘significant’ cyberattack
Radiology Business reports: An Oregon radiology practice suffered a “significant” cyberattack over the Memorial Day weekend, according to published reports. Medford Radiology Group has retained a team of computer forensics experts to help aid in its response. The 75-year-old practice also has alerted partner organizations such as the Asante and Providence hospital systems after learning of the incident on…