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Double whammy: BCBS of Michigan policyholders hit by two breaches in December

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Dissent

December appears to have been a rough month for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Yesterday, I discovered that they had a second breach that was disclosed last month, although it seems to have flown under most media radar. The first breach, fairly widely reported already, involved a laptop stolen from a subsidiary’s employee that…

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Ransomware, phishing attacks top new HHS list of cyberthreats in healthcare

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Dissent

Eli Richman reports: Email phishing attacks, ransomware attacks and attacks against connected medical devices are among the greatest cyberthreats that health systems need to protect against, according to new cybersecurity guidance for health systems from the Department of Health and Human Services.Released last week, the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices were released to help the industry identify…

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MO: Choice Rehabilitation notifies patients after hack of corporate email account

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Dissent

The following notice from Choice Rehabilitation is dated December 18, 2018, but first appeared in STLToday on December 31, 2018: December 18, 2018 Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, MO notified more than 500 residents of a breach of unsecured resident health information after discovering the following event: On November 7, 2018, Choice Rehabilitation, (Choice) discovered…

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Dental Center of Northwest Ohio’s notifies patients after IT vendor Arakÿta experiences ransomware incident

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Dissent

TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Dental Center of Northwest Ohio (the “Dental Center”) is providing notice to current and former patients and employees of a recent incident involving personal information. To date, the Dental Center has not received any reports that personal information has been misused as a result of this incident.  On or about September 1, 2018, the…

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Privacy breach at Family Physicians Group may have affected 8,400 Orlando patients

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Dissent

Naseem S. Miller reports: Family Physicians Group, a large practice in Orlando that was recently acquired by Humana, is notifying more than 8,000 patients about a privacy breach that may have compromised their personal health information. The breach occurred due to a phishing attack on an employee’s email account, the company said in a news release…

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Blue Cross: Theft of employee’s computer may have compromised 15,000 customers’ data

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Dissent

Dave Bartkowiak Jr. reports:  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced Friday that the personal data of nearly 15,000 of Medicare Advantage members may have been compromised after an employee’s laptop computer was stolen in October.  Blue Cross said it was notified on Nov. 12, 2018 by COBX, a subsidiary company vendor serving Medicare Advantage business for them, that…

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