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WY: Former Employee Inappropriately Accessed Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Patient Health Records

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Dissent

Phoenixville Hospital was just one of two reports this week involving employees behaving badly by accessing patient files without a legitimate purpose. On July 6, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming revealed that a former employee had inappropriately accessed several patients’ personal health records between August 31, 2020, and May 26, 2022. In this case,…

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PA: Phoenixville Hospital notifying patients after discovering improper EMR access by employee

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Dissent

Despite employers’ best efforts, some employees will just continue to try to snoop in patient files. This time, a covered entity discovered the wrongdoing via their own internal monitoring. Phoenixville Hospital, operated by Tower Health, reports that a recent review detected that an employee had accessed a patient’s electronic medical records (EMR) without any apparent…

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Graff paid £6m ransom fee to Conti, now sues Travelers for refusing to reimburse

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Dissent

Sam Lewis reports: It has been revealed that high-end British jeweller Graff paid out a ransom fee topping £6 million in a well-publicised cyber attack last year. It emerged in November 2021 that Graff had been the target of Russian hackers who had gained possession of data pertaining to many of Graff’s high-profile customers. The incident is…

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Recent Security Incident: Statement from SHI

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Dissent

Over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, SHI was the target of a coordinated and professional malware attack. Thanks to the quick reactions of the security and IT teams at SHI, the incident was swiftly identified and measures were enacted to minimize the impact on SHI’s systems and operations. These preventative measures included taking some…

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North Korea is targeting hospitals with ransomware, U.S. agencies warn

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Dissent

Kevin Collier reports: The U.S. government said Wednesday that North Korea is behind a recent strain of ransomware cyberattacks on hospitals and other health care facilities. The warning is the starkest alert to date that North Korea, which the U.S. has long alleged uses its hackers to raise money for state programs like its nuclear weapons…

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VCU Health identifies and addresses a 16-year privacy breach

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Dissent

Soap operas are almost always long-running. Privacy breaches should not be, and 16 years is a very long time for a problem to go undetected. But it appears that’s what happened to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (“VCU Health”). Last month, VCU Health disclosed that they had recently learned that beginning as early as…

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