As posted on the hospital’s web site on August 15: Virginia Gay Hospital Notifies Patients of Security Incident Vinton, Iowa (August 15, 2019) – Virginia Gay Hospital has become aware of a data security incident that may have resulted in the disclosure of the personal information of its patients. Virginia Gay Hospital immediately investigated the…
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Grays Harbor Community Hospital and Harbor Medical Group notifying 85,000 patients of ransomware incident; Not all EMR have been recovered
Back in July, this site noted a media report about a ransomware attack on Grays Harbor Community Hospital. At the time, and although the incident had first been reported in the media on June 19, the hospital was still not disclosing a lot of details. Yesterday, the hospital issued a formal notice about the breach,…
FL: NCH Healthcare System investigating impact of phishing attack
Liz Freeman reports: The NCH Healthcare System is investigating a data security breach in which an unauthorized entity gained access to some employees’ email accounts, according to hospital officials. NCH became aware June 14 of suspicious activity related to its payroll system and launched an investigation. Read more on Naples Daily News. NCH’s notice on their…
KNEO radio station attacked by ransomware
KNEO radio station, a Christian radio station, got hit with ransomware and wound up with all its audio files corrupted. FourStatesHomePage reports that the radio station first became aware of the attack on Sunday afternoon when they experienced a system breakdown. The staff of KNEO became aware of the system breakdown Sunday afternoon. The station’s…
Healthcare entities continue to be targeted: eye care provider in Ohio hit with ransomware, dental practice in Minnesota reports cyberattack
I wonder if HHS will need to take on more staff to deal with all the HIPAA breaches being disclosed this year. In July alone, this blogger logged approximately 65 reports on my worksheet, although a number of them were all reporting on a few business associate breaches. In any event, there are a lot…
AZ: Camp Verde Unified School District hit with ransomware attack as school year starts
Jon Hecht reports: Camp Verde Unified School District had its first day on Monday, Aug. 5. In addition to the usual stress and confusion that can come with new students and a new school year, the district was plagued with a much more serious difficulty — their computer systems had been hacked. On Friday, July…