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PHI Exposed Because of Hacking Incidents in 3 HIPAA-Regulated Entities

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PHI of Nearly 69,000 Individuals Exposed in Comstar Hacking Incident Comstar located in Rowley, MA offers ambulance billing, collection, ePCR Hosting, and patient/client services. It learned that an unauthorized third party obtained access to certain sections of its servers that stored files containing personally identifiable information and protected health information (PHI) of persons. A number …

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Shields Health Care Group Confronted With Class Action Lawsuit Due to 2 Million-Record Data Breach

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Shields Health Care Group is confronted with a class-action lawsuit because of the 2 million-record data breach it recently reported. This is the largest healthcare data breach ever documented for 2022. Shields Health Care Group is the biggest company providing MRI imaging services in New England. There are more than 40 establishments managed by Shields …

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2 Million Patients Affected by Shields Health Care Group Cyberattack

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The protected health information (PHI) of approximately 2 million persons was possibly exposed in a cyberattack on Shields Health Care Group. Shields Health Care Group based in Massachusetts offers ambulatory surgical center administration and medical imaging services across New England. The group discovered suspicious activity inside its system on March 28, 2022. Prompt action was …

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Hackers Could Take Advantage of Zero Day Microsoft Office Vulnerability with Macros Disabled

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Microsoft has released a security alert and has given a solution to stop a zero-day vulnerability identified in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) from exploitation. The vulnerability is monitored as CVE-2022-30190 and has been called Follina by security experts. As per Microsoft, a remote code execution vulnerability is present when MSDT is called …

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More than 850,000 Persons Impacted by Cyberattack on Partnership Health Plan of California

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In March 2022, Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) stated that third-party forensic experts were involved to help recover the service of its IT solutions subsequent to a cyberattack. PHC has stated in a breach notice routed to the Maine Attorney General the potential theft of the protected health information (PHI) of 854,913 present and past …

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Cyberattacks Reported by Schneck Medical Center, and NuLife Med

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The medical equipment firm NuLife Med LLC located in Manchester, NH, has lately reported that it suffered a cyberattack in March 2022. It detected suspicious system activity on or about March 11, 2022, and took action right away to avoid continuing unauthorized network access. The firm started an investigation to find out the nature and …

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Email Security Cases Announced by HealthPlex and Optima Dermatology

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Healthplex Inc., one of the biggest dental insurance companies based in New York, has reported the compromise of an employee’s email account because of a phishing attack last November 24, 2021. Upon uncovering the data breach, Healthplex promptly protected the email account to avoid more unauthorized access and started an investigation to discover the nature …

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HSCC Published Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident Checklist

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An Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident (OCCI) checklist published by the Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) works as a versatile template for dealing with serious cyberattacks that result in lengthy system breakdowns, like ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks on healthcare companies more than doubled throughout the pandemic and still continue to increase. Ransomware threat …

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HHS Advises HPH Sector Regarding Insider Threats in Medical Care

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Numerous healthcare data breaches are happening, yet not all privacy and security problems originate from beyond the company. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HCC) has lately released an alert regarding the threat from the inside. Insider Threats in Healthcare Nation-state hacking gangs, cybercriminal groups, and solitary hackers have …

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Insider Data Breaches at Deaconess Health System and Blue Earth County

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Deaconess Health System based in Indiana and Blue Earth County based in Minnesota have informed individuals who had their sensitive personal data has accessed by unauthorized employees. Deaconess Health System Informs Female Patients About Unauthorized Medical Record Access by a Doctor A doctor previously working at Deaconess Health System in Evansville, IN, was found to …

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PHI Exposed Because of Hacking Incidents in 3 HIPAA-Regulated Entities

Shields Health Care Group Confronted With Class Action Lawsuit Due to 2 Million-Record Data Breach

2 Million Patients Affected by Shields Health Care Group Cyberattack

Hackers Could Take Advantage of Zero Day Microsoft Office Vulnerability with Macros Disabled

More than 850,000 Persons Impacted by Cyberattack on Partnership Health Plan of California

Cyberattacks Reported by Schneck Medical Center, and NuLife Med

Email Security Cases Announced by HealthPlex and Optima Dermatology

HSCC Published Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident Checklist

HHS Advises HPH Sector Regarding Insider Threats in Medical Care

Insider Data Breaches at Deaconess Health System and Blue Earth County

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