Sara Schilling reports: Chaplaincy Health Care is offering free identity protection and credit monitoring to more than 1,000 people after a privacy breach. An employee’s email login credentials were compromised through an apparent phishing scheme. Read more on Tri-City Herald.
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KS: Wichita State U. employees fall victim to phishing scam, lose paychecks
Suzanne Perez Tobias reports: At least three employees of Wichita State University did not receive their paychecks recently after they were targeted by computer hackers. The employees were victims of an e-mail phishing scheme, which asked them to type in their university ID number and password, allowing scammers to access bank account numbers, student records…
Humana notifies members of business associate breach at Bankers Life
Humana‘s name has been popping up too much in my breach news searches recently. I noted two incidents in December involving Humana (one theft report and one hack involving Family Physicians Group (now Humana). Now I’ve spotted a third incident report, although this one is a breach involving a business associate. According to a notification…
Exclusive: National Life Group denies claim by thedarkoverlord that they were hacked; independent insurance agency appears to be the actual victim
Hackers claimed to have hacked hundreds of thousands of records from National Life Group, but investigation points to Sterling National Financial Group as the likely hacked entity The blackhat hacker/extortionist(s) known as thedarkoverlord (TDO) ended 2018 and welcomed 2019 with a number of bold announcements about large hacks. One of those announcements was their claim in a since-removed paste that…
Double whammy: BCBS of Michigan policyholders hit by two breaches in December
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…
Ransomware, phishing attacks top new HHS list of cyberthreats in healthcare
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…