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The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics located in Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia found out that unauthorized persons got access to the email accounts of several workers. On September 17, 2020, the practice noticed suspicious activities in its email program. Investigating third-party cybersecurity experts affirmed that unauthorized individuals viewed a number of email accounts from October …

Email Security Breaches at Orthopaedics Practice, Administrative Advantage, and Parkland Health and Hospital System Read More »

A ransomware attack on Accellion, a file transfer service company, permitted unauthorized individuals to access the protected health information (PHI) of University of Miami Health patients. The University of Miami Health employed Accellion’s file transfer technology for sharing files that were too big to be sent through email. The University of Miami mentioned that only …

PHI Exposed Due to Ransomware Attacks on the University of Miami Health and Mott Community College Read More »

Microsoft has introduced out-of-band security changes to deal with the four zero-day Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities which a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group identified as Hafnium is actively taking advantage of. The attacks have been happening beginning early January, as the APT group is attacking defense companies, law companies, colleges, NGOs, think tanks, and …

Microsoft Launches Patches for Four Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server Read More »

All through the pandemic, cybercriminals took advantage of new opportunities and have been attacking hospitals, medical clinics, and other companies and organizations on the front line in fighting against COVID.   Ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector went up in 2020, particularly in the fall when a coordinated campaign got a lot of healthcare victims. …

Facts About Healthcare Industry Cyber Threats and the Supply Chain Helping Criminal Activity Read More »

A Campbell County Health (CCH) employee made an email error that resulted in the impermissible disclosure of the protected health information (PHI) of 900 people. The health system based in Gillette, WY learned on February 5, 2021 that an employee sent an email to a patient and affixed a file by mistake. The file had …

Impermissible Disclosure of the PHI at Campbell County Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center Read More »