Attacks on revenue cycle management (RCM) firms and debt collection firms often provide criminals with a wealth of personal and protected health information because successfully compromising one billing vendor may give access to the sensitive data of numerous covered entities or clients. Horizon Healthcare RCM (“Horizon”) in Indiana is the latest RCM to disclose that…
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Texas Centers for Infectious Disease Associates Notifies Individuals of Data Breach in 2024 (1)
Texas Centers for Infectious Disease Associates (TCIDA) has now issued a press release and sent notification letters to patients affected by an attack they first discovered last July. According to their notice, on July 19, 2024, they learned of unusual activity in their network. Their investigation determined that an unauthorized individual may have accessed or…
Breaches have consequences (sometimes) (1)
Connor Smith reports: Six months after a massive data breach that impacted students, families and school staff around the country – including each school district in Southeastern North Carolina – the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has renewed part of its contract with the company at the center of the breach. On Monday,…
Alleged Geisinger hacker will defend himself pro se.
John Beauge reports: The man accused of downloading protected information of more than 1.2 million Geisinger Health System patients in 2023 will defend himself at his criminal trial. U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew W. Brann granted the motion of Max Vance to proceed pro se but assigned assistant public defender Gerald A. Lord as standby…
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare reveals it was also impacted by Cerner/Legacy Oracle cyberattack
WTXL reports: Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare is releasing more information regarding a cybersecurity event that happened this past January. A spokesperson told WTXL ABC 27 they were recently notified that a previous vendor TMH used had experienced a cybersecurity event involving unauthorized access to data, including certain patient information. TMH says its current electronic health record…
IMPACT: 170 patients harmed as a result of Qilin’s ransomware attack on NHS vendor Synnovis
PA News Agency reports that as a result of the attack, more than 10,000 appointments were cancelled at the two London NHS trusts that were worst affected, and a significant number of GP practices in London were unable to order blood tests for their patients. Now the Health Service Journal (HSJ) [paywalled] has reported that…