Amanda Rogers writes: As we’re now midway through 2022, we thought we’d take a half-time pause to compare some data breach statistics in the healthcare space for the first half of 2022 to the first half of 2021. We’ll also provide insight on how to proactively take a stand to better protect your patients and…
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BJC HealthCare settles class action litigation
In May 2020, DataBreaches noted that BJC Healthcare in Missouri was alerting patients to a data breach. The breach had first been discovered on March 6, shortly after three employee email accounts were compromised. At the time of notification, BJC Healthcare reported that investigators were unable to determine if any emails or attachments had actually…
Treating Healthcare’s Insider Threat
Gabriel Avner writes: There’s an old joke about why bank robbers rob banks. Because that’s where the money is. Given the valuable assets under their care, banks, fintech, insurance, and other financial institutions have understood that they have to take special care to avoid data breaches and other threats. But if the past week’s steady…
Tenet Healthcare faces lawsuit after Baptist Health System data breach affects 1.2 million patients
Catherine Martin reports: A Texas man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and its affiliate Baptist Health System after the companies experienced a data breach this year that affected more than a million patients. The lawsuit was filed July 5 in Dallas County on behalf of Troy Contreras, one of about 1.2…
US govt warns of Maui ransomware attacks against healthcare orgs
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The FBI, CISA, and the U.S. Treasury Department issued today a joint advisory warning of North-Korean-backed threat actors using Maui ransomware in attacks against Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) organizations. Starting in May 2021, the FBI has responded to and detected multiple Maui ransomware attacks impacting HPH Sector orgs across the U.S….
ATC Healthcare, Community of Hope, The People Concern disclose breaches, Advocates notifies more people of its breach
Preface: In this post, DataBreaches summarizes four more notifications involving patient data or health data that were published this past week. Three of the incidents are new disclosures and one is an update. Note that the three newly disclosed incidents all involved compromise of employee email accounts. In at least two of the three incidents,…