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Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare Settles Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit For $340,000

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A class action lawsuit against California-based Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare has resulted in a $340,000 settlement. The healthcare provider will establish the fund to resolve claims made by patients who had their PHI exposed in a breach in 2020. After discovering an unauthorized third-party had gained access to four employee email accounts and a contractor …

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OneTouchPoint Data Breach Reaches 2.65M Individuals

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2,651,396 people have now been impacted by the ransomware attack on OneTouchPoint, a mailing and printing company located in Hartland, Wisconsin. Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative is one of the most recent organizations to announce that it had been affected by the attack, with 133,714 of its members affected.  On April 28, 2022, OneTouchPoint had detected …

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HC3 Warns Health Organizations Of Hive Ransomware Gang

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An alert has been issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Cybersecuirty Program (HC3) warning organizations in the health sector of the Hive ransomware group. According to the HHS, Hive is an exceptionally aggressive ransomware group who regularly target healthcare organizations.  Since June 2021, the Hive ransomware gang has been the furth …

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Study Finds Telehealth Reduced Opioid Risk During Pandemic

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A study published in JAMA Psychiatry has revealed that opioid use disorder-related telehealth care during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with lower chance of a medically treated overdose and improved retention of medication use.  The study was obtained from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services between September 2018 to February 2021. The study …

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HC3 Warns Health Sector Of Cybercriminal Gang Evil Corp

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A warning has been issued by the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) to advise the healthcare and public health sector (HPH) of the dangers of Evil Corp. Evil Corp is a cybercrime syndicate based in Russia and has been launching attacks since 2009. The group is said to be responsible for the several ransomware …

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Lawsuit Filed Against Avamere Holdings For Data Breach Affecting 380,000 Individuals

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A lawsuit has been filed against Wilsonville-based Avamere Holdings for a data breach affecting 96 senior living facilities and involved the release of the protected health information of over 380,000 individual. On July 7th, Avamere Health services, a business associate of Avamere holdings, notified affected individuals of the data breach.   In the period between January …

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FTC Sues Data Broker Kochava For Selling User Location Data

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A lawsuit has been filed to data broker Kochava by the U.S. Federal Trade Commision (FTC) for its alleged unlawful collection of geolocation user data, in violation of the FTC Act. According to the lawsuit, Kochava had been selling location data along with Mobile Advertising ID (MIAD), a special identification given to consumer’s mobile devices …

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Global Password Management Provider Reports Data Breach

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LastPass, a global leader in password management solutions, has reported a data breach as the result of a cyberattack. LastPass is employed by approximately 30 million individuals worldwide, including 85,000 business customers.  After detecting suspicious activity in early August, LastPass discovered that an unauthorized third party had gained access to a single compromised developer account. …

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HC3 Warns Healthcare Organizations Of Ransomware Group

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A warning has been issued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Hea;tj Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) to advise healthcare organizations about a ransom threat group called Karakurt. The group of cybercriminals has been known to operate several hacking and exploitive attacks on the healthcare sector. The attacks delivered by Karakurt are similar …

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Humana & Cotiviti Settle Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit Affecting 64,654 Members

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A class action lawsuit has been settled by Humana & Cotiviti after a data breach that disclosed the personal information of 64,654 individuals. The breach occurred after Humana had employed Cotiviti to help verify data in medical record requests before submitting them to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid …

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