Jessica Kim Cohen reports: The latest data from the Human Services Department’s Office for Civil Rights show the largest number of healthcare data breaches in a year since regulators started tallying them in 2010. This year’s total beat last year’s by a single incident. These breaches didn’t affect as many patients as the worst year…
Category: Health Data
Resource: Ransomware attacks on healthcare sector (CyberPeace Institute)
CyberPeace Institute has made a ransomware incident tracer publicly available. The not-for-profit organization compiled and analyzed 295 cyberattacks against the healthcare sector across 35 countries from June 2020 until now. You can access their data and analyses at https://cit.cyberpeaceinstitute.org/explore
TX: Missing document investigation solved after HHSC files found to be in staff’s possession
Avery Travis reports: After a large amount of files containing state documents — and possibly sensitive health information for nursing home residents — were believed to be missing earlier this year, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission determined the records were never missing. A state employee of HHSC’s regulatory division came to KXAN and…
Threat actors pose as pharmacists, get business associates to send them patient records
Harbor Health in Massachusetts has notified at least one patient whose data was compromised by an attack on ScansStat Technologies. According to a December 13 letter from Jesse A. Shipley, HHSI’s Director of Compliance & Risk Management, on November 12, ScansStat Technologies informed them that bad actors posing as pharmacies had managed to get ScansStat…
Ie: Ransomware cyberattack hits Coombe hospital, IT services locked down as precaution
Eoghan Moloney and Eilish O’Regan report: The Coombe Hospital has been the subject of a ransomware cyberattack overnight, the hospital has confirmed. The maternity and infants hospital said that services are continuing as normal despite the cyberattack on Wednesday night. The hospital isolated and locked down its IT services once the attack was discovered “on…
NJ: Cancer Care Providers Will Adopt New Security Measures and Pay $425,000 to Settle Investigation into Two Data Breaches
CONSENT ORDER NEWARK – Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck today announced that the Division of Consumer Affairs has reached a settlement with three New Jersey-based providers of cancer care that the State alleges failed to adequately safeguard patient data, exposing the personal and protected health information of 105,200 consumers, including 80,333 New Jersey residents. Under…