Jessica Davis reports: Unresponsive. Completely ignored. Misleading. Breached contracts. In a highly regulated industry like healthcare, these are not words one would expect to hear about a vendor tasked with hosting the electronic medical records of small providers and their related patient data. But in the wake of the coverage detailing a number of cited…
Category: U.S.
Dental Care Alliance settles lawsuit stemming from 2020 breach
In December 2020, DataBreaches reported on a hacking incident involving Dental Care Alliance, a business associate to hundreds of dental practices. Commenting on the incident, DataBreaches wrote: With all that sensitive information involved, you might think that the practice would offer remediation services to the 1,004,304 people affected but they do not seem to have…
Infinity Rehab and Avamere Health Services notify 380,984 patients about breach at Avamere (with updates)
In April 2022, DataBreaches became aware of a possible breach involving Avamere Holdings, a group of companies providing senior living healthcare and rehabilitation services including IT services. Today, we learned that they did have a breach of their network. Premere Rehab, LLC (“Infinity Rehab”) reported that Avamere Health Services had alerted them that they had…
DOJ Investigating 2020 SolarWinds Cybersecurity Breach of Judiciary’s Court Management System
Avalon Zoppo reports: The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a cybersecurity breach that involved the judiciary’s electronic filing and case management system, the department’s National Security Division head told the House Judiciary Committee Thursday. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Jerry Nadler, raised the issue at the start of the hearing, noting that the U.S. Administrative…
Kansas MSP shuts down cloud services to fend off cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports: A US managed service provider NetStandard suffered a cyberattack causing the company to shut down its MyAppsAnywhere cloud services, consisting of hosted Dynamics GP, Exchange, Sharepoint, and CRM services. According to an email sent to MyAppsAnywhere customers shared on Reddit, the company detected signs of a cyberattack on Tuesday morning and quickly shut down…
Mailing and printing vendor issues breach notice on behalf of more than three dozen health plans
Update: On July 27, OneTouchPoint notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that a total of 1,073,316 people were impacted by their breach. In June, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield disclosed a breach involving their business associate, Matrix. Matrix had been notified by OneTouchPoint of a cyberattack that occurred between April 27 and April 28….