The following is a snapshot of recent attacks on U.S. healthcare entities by ransomware teams. #1 First Choice Community Healthcare – Hive Hive threat actors have never sworn off attacking the healthcare sector. In addition to claiming that they attacked the Partnership HealthPlan of California on March 19 (an attack that has impacted PHPC’s functioning),…
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ANNOUNCE: HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Seeks Public Comment on Recognized Security Practices and Sharing Civil Money Penalties and Monetary Settlements Under the HITECH Act
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input from the public on two requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH Act), as amended in 2021. The growing number of cybersecurity threats are…
Charity Pays Over $8 Million to Resolve Federal Embezzlement, Bribery Investigation
Preferred Family Healthcare, a Springfield, Missouri-based non-profit, will pay more than $8 million in forfeiture and restitution to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under the terms of a non-prosecution agreement announced yesterday, which acknowledges the criminal conduct of its former officers and employees. “Preferred Family Healthcare must relinquish the illegal profits it…
Hive claims Partnership HealthPlan of California as a victim
For a brief period yesterday, visitors to Hive ransomware’s leak site would have seen Partnership HealthPlan of California listed. According to the listing, the threat actors claim to have exfiltrated 850,000 unique records with name, Social Security Number, date of birth, address, contact information, and more. Hive claimed that they had 400 GB of stolen…
French health insurance data leak: what to do if you are one of the 510,000 affected
Emma Morgan reports: On March 17, it was revealed that the accounts of 19 healthcare staff had been hacked, causing the details of at least 510,000 people to be stolen. France’s Caisse nationale d’assurance maladie (Cnam) health insurance body, which has now made a formal complaint, explained that “unauthorised people” had connected to the “Amelipro…
Oklahoma City Indian Clinic impacted by Suncrypt’s ransomware attack
The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic (OKCIC) serves 20,000 patients from more than 200 different Native American tribes. A note on their website and their Twitter account currently apologizes that due to technological issues, the pharmacy automatic refill line and mail order services will be down for an indeterminate amount of time. The home page of…