Paige Minemyer reports: Change Healthcare now estimates that 190 million people were impacted in the massive cyberattack that took down its services nearly a year ago. UnitedHealth Group, Change’s parent company, said in a statement to Fierce Healthcare that the “vast majority” of people impacted have received an individual or substitute notice about the breach….
Prosecutors may have dropped the case against Dr. Eithan Haim, but his conduct is a reminder of the insider threat. AP reports: Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped the case against a Texas doctor who called himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors and was accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients who weren’t under his care. The…
SuspectFile reports: A severe blow to Argentina’s public healthcare system has been dealt by the ransomware group Medusa, which, in recent days, through one of its affiliates, carried out a significant attack on the IT networks of the Hospital de Alta Complejidad El Cruce “Néstor Kirchner” (Hospital El Cruce), located in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires…
HCF Management manages a variety of healthcare facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including assisted living, rehabilitation services, long-term care, and hospice services. They are a for-profit organization. On October 29, 2024, RansomHub added HCF Inc. to its leak site with a claim that they had exfiltrated 250 GB of files. Their listing did not specifically…
The individual known as “0mid16B” has been busy, it seems. They contacted DataBreaches on Wednesday to announce that they had hacked MedSave Health Insurance TPA Ltd (“MedSave”). MedSave is a third party administrator in India that partners with more than 10 insurance companies, processing and settling claims submitted by hospitals or insured members. MedSave lists…
Settlement with Northeast Surgical Group marks OCR’s 10th ransomware enforcement action and 4th enforcement action in OCR’s Risk Analysis Initiative. Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Northeast Surgical Group, P.C. (NESG), a provider of surgical services in Michigan, for a potential violation…