Asante provides healthcare services in southern Oregon and northern California. On February 28, it issued a notice about an insider-wrongdoing incident. As they describe it on their site, they became aware of a concern that a doctor with admitting privileges, Dr. Paul Hoffman, may have accessed a number of patients’ records without a valid clinical…
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CISA Advisory: Royal Ransomware
Release Date: March 02, 2023 Alert Code: AA23-061A SUMMARY Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These #StopRansomware advisories include recently and historically observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to help organizations…
Hackers Extort Less Money, Are Laid Off as New Tactics Thwart More Ransomware Attacks
Robert McMillan, Dustin Volz, and Aruna Viswanatha report: Extortion payments from ransomware, a hacking scourge that has crippled hospitals, schools and public infrastructure, fell significantly last year, according to federal officials, cybersecurity analysts and blockchain firms. One of the examples cited surprised me, as I had no idea a Conti call center had so many…
True Health New Mexico settles lawsuit over 2021 ransomware incident
True Health New Mexico has agreed to a class action settlement to resolve claims that the health insurance provider failed to protect patient data from an October 2021 data breach. As reported by Top Class Actions, plaintiffs in several lawsuits claimed True Health New Mexico failed to protect their sensitive information from a ransomware attack…
Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration
The following is a guest article by John Gaede, Director of Information Systems at Sky Lakes Medical Center that appeared on Healthcare IT Today. Imagine a rural business is the victim of a cyberattack. A nefarious person or group convinces an unsuspecting employee to open an email promising a bonus. Within 12 hours, every piece of technology…
Protenus releases its 2023 Breach Barometer for Health Data Breaches
Protenus LLC has released its seventh annual Breach Barometer report. Unlike other analyses that seem to rely solely on reports to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Breach Barometer uses a broader lens and includes reports from non-HIPAA entities that involved medical data or health insurance information on employees or patients. There…