The sensitive health information maintained by health care providers and health plans has become an increasingly attractive target for cyberattacks. The need for health care organizations to up their game on health data security has never been greater. To help health care organizations covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to bolster…
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Patient monitors altered, drug dispensary popped in colossal hospital hack
Scary stuff. Darren Pauli reports: Security researchers have exploited notoriously porous hospital networks to gain access to, and tamper with, critical medical equipment in attacks they say could put lives in danger. In tests, hospital hackers from the Independent Security Evaluators research team popped patient monitors, making them display false readings which could result in…
St. Joseph Hospital employee information leaked in phishing scam
News12 reports: A Passaic County hospital says that a security breach caused some personal information about some of its employees to get out. Saint Joseph’s Healthcare System in Paterson says that a phishing scam has led to the unintentional disclosure of employee information, including social security numbers. “The information disclosed did not include any employee…
ID: Fruitland dental hygienist accused of insurance fraud
Here’s another case where health care services were provided by someone using a stolen identity, but in this case the stolen identity was used to fraudulently authorize treatments and to defraud insurance carriers. John Sowell reports: Federal prosecutors have accused Cherie R. Dillon of health care fraud and aggravated identity theft tied to her Payette…
California Attorney General Releases Data Breach Report; Over 49 Million Records of Californians’ Personal Information Put at Risk in Last Four Years
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today addressed the Stanford Cyber Initiative to release a comprehensive report detailing the nature of data breaches reported to her office over the past four years. The report found that between 2012 and 2015, there were 657 data breaches, which compromised over 49 million records of Californians’ personal information. The…
More than 10,000 Chinese computers hacked in a year; websites vulnerable
Xinhua reports: More than 10,000 computers in China were attacked by domestic and overseas hackers between December 2014 and November 2015, a cybersecurity firm has detected. The SkyEye Lab, run by Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360, said 29 hacker organizations from home and abroad launched the attacks. Read more on Xinhua. Focusing on another part…