RGH Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a Edgepark Medical Supplies (“Edgepark”) is an Ohio medical supplies provider that ships products directly to patients and bills their insurance for them. Rise Interactive Media & Analytics, LLC (“Rise”) is an Illinois firm that provides digital marketing services for Edgepark as a business associate. They also provide analytics and other services…
Category: Breach Incidents
Reventics notifying patients of ransomware incident
Reventics LLC is a business associate in Colorado offering revenue cycle management, clinical documentation, and quality improvement services. On or about December 15, 2022, Reventics detected some anomalies in its systems and discovered an intrusion and encryption of its files. Some of those files contained protected health information (PHI) of patients. On December 27, an…
Sweetwater Union High School District still dealing with impact of undefined situation
Kristen Taketa reports: Days after a sweeping systems outage first disrupted student learning and forced teachers to remake their lessons, the Sweetwater Union High School District still hasn’t said what caused the outage or when it expects a fix. […] The outage was discovered Sunday in the district’s Microsoft systems, including Outlook, according to the…
FBI says it has ‘contained’ cyber incident on bureau’s computer network
Evan Perez and Sean Lyngaas report: The FBI has been investigating and working to contain a malicious cyber incident on part of its computer network in recent days, according to people briefed on the matter. FBI officials believe the incident involved an FBI computer system used in investigations of images of child sexual exploitation, two…
Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information For Calendar Year 2021- HHS OCR
From their report: Summary OCR received 609 notifications of breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, representing a decrease of 7% from the number of reports received in calendar year 2020. These reported breaches affected a total of approximately 37,182,558 individuals. The most commonly reported category of breaches was hacking, and the largest breach of this…
Update to the Des Moines Public School ransomware attack
For some students in Des Moines, Iowa, the return to school after the winter holidays was soon interrupted by a cyberattack that resulted in classes being canceled. But as classes continued to be canceled, it became clearer that restoration and recovery would not be quick. By January 11, two days after the announcement of school…