HIPAA Journal reports: A class action lawsuit filed by two former patients against BJC HealthCare over a March 2020 email data breach has survived two motions to dismiss. Leaha Sweet and Bradley Dean Taylor took legal action against St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare in September 2020 after being notified that their protected health information had potentially…
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Healthcare entities in Saudi Arabia, Illinois, and Mississippi fall prey to Xing Team
Note: updates to the breaches included in this report appear below the original post. Some threat actors have gained a lot of notoriety while others are lesser known. In this article, DataBreaches.net reports on a relatively unknown group that has been hitting the healthcare sector, “Xing Team.” Like other groups, Xing maintains a dedicated leak…
MI: WMed warns 2,474 employees and beneficiaries enrolled in healthcare coverage of phishing incident
Brad Devereaux reports: WMed has alerted employees, former employees and their beneficiaries covered under employee healthcare coverage about a data security incident caused by phishing that exposed personal information. Someone within the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, or WMed, clicked on a “phishing” link in an email, which allowed outside access…
After going up, up, up, will ransom payments in healthcare and education sectors start dropping?
Key points: More than half of ransomware victims reportedly pay ransom, but there is an absence of quality data and reporting that would enable better analyses. As payouts have increased, the number of customers electing to have cyberinsurance coverage (the take-up rate) has increased, although SMBs lag behind mid- to large-sized entities. As payouts have…
FBI: Conti Ransomware Attacks Impact Healthcare and First Responder Networks
The FBI has issued a Flash Alert about Conti. Summary The FBI identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks targeting US healthcare and first responder networks, including law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, 9-1-1 dispatch centers, and municipalities within the last year. These healthcare and first responder networks are among the more than 400 organizations…
UT: Astro Team threat actors dump patient-related files allegedly from Eduro Healthcare
Eduro Healthcare is a Salt Lake City, Utah based company providing transitional care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation services, and assisted living. Eduro provides an email address to use for contact. Sadly, it does not work. Nor do they seem to respond to contact form messages. Or emails to their executives. On April 7, a relatively…