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Redwood Eye Center Ransomware Attack IT Lighthouse, the managed service provider hosting the electronic [...]

This is a summary of healthcare ransomware attacks, security incidents and privacy breaches that have been [...]

Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s Western Regional Medical Center located in Bullhead City, AZ has [...]

Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta (GSOA) is notifying certain patients about the potential theft of [...]

East Ohio Regional Hospital (EORH) in Martins Ferry, OH and Ohio Valley Medical Center (OVMC) in Wheeling, WV [...]

The employees affected by a data breach at University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) took legal action [...]

Healthcare company Tandigm Health discovered a vulnerability on its website on September 25, 2018. The [...]

The healthcare industry is a target for hackers but while there have been many hacks and IT incidents, [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has settled potential HIPAA [...]

HIPAA Journal’s healthcare data breach report for October 2018 shows an increase in healthcare data [...]

Key Dental Group in Pembroke Pines, FL is notifying patients about a possible HIPAA violation that could [...]

FHN Healthcare, which manages FHN Memorial Hospital located in Freeport, IL and other family healthcare [...]

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital and Episcopal Health Services in New York have notified past and present [...]

A phishing attack on Southwest Washington Regional Surgery Center located in Vancouver, WA, resulted in the [...]

Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, NY, has informed 1,216 of its patients that a former hospital worker [...]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported last month that the HealthCare.gov website [...]

On July 29, 2018, May Eye Care Center, located in Hanover, PA, was attacked with ransomware. The ransomware [...]

Health First Inc., a health system with four hospitals based in Florida, experienced a hacking/IT incident [...]

Sergiu Jitcu of Saddle Brook, NJ was a former IT employee of Chilton Medical Center in New Jersey. He was [...]

The last three years have seen 955 major healthcare security breaches that resulted in the exposure and/or [...]

Inova Health System based in Falls Church, VA is informing 12,331 patients that there has been a breach of [...]

The Q3 Breach Barometer Report from Protenus shows a drop in the number of healthcare data breaches in Q3 [...]

Bankers Life, based in Chicago, is a health insurance company and the largest division of CNO Financial Group [...]

Best Medical Transcription agreed to pay a $200,000 settlement to the New Jersey Attorney’s office to [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a new report [...]

Raley’s Pharmacy is sending notifications to around 10,000 patients about the possible exposure of some of [...]

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MHSS) is informing 10,400 patients about a recently [...]

The Jones Eye Clinic and CJ Elmwood Partners, L.P, located in Sioux City, IA, have discovered the protected [...]

Catawba Valley Medical Center (CVMC) located in Hickory, NC, found out on August 13, 2018 that an [...]

FirstCare Health Plans in Texas is informing over 8,000 plan members about the impermissible disclosure of [...]

The Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS) has discovered a problem with its ERS OnLine portal. When some [...]

California’s National Ambulatory Hernia Institute experienced a ransomware attack on September 13, 2018 [...]

Two mailing errors in 2017 resulted in the impermissible disclosure of Aetna plan members’ protected [...]

Biomarin Pharmaceutical and Envision Healthcare Corporation have both recently announced that they have [...]

Two recent phishing attacks on the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) have resulted in a potential [...]

Here’s a summary of the healthcare data breaches reported to OCR by healthcare providers and business [...]

Gold Coast Health Plan based in Camarillo, CA is alerting 37,000 plan members that hackers have potentially [...]

An employee of KHOU 11, a CBS-affiliated TV station, discovered abandoned paperwork that contained the [...]

Aspire Health is a Nashville, TN in-home services provider for patients diagnosed with critical illnesses. [...]

In April 2018, 65-year old former Massachusetts gynecologist Rita Luthra was found guilty of a criminal [...]

An employee of the emergency unit in Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital has been charged with stealing [...]

Posting protected health information (PHI) on social media sites, including closed Facebook groups, violates [...]

Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia has notified 17,000 of its plan members that their protected health [...]

Hopebridge, a healthcare organization that operates a network of 28 autism treatment centers across the [...]

A nurse employed at Texas Children’s Hospital has lost her job as a result of sharing protected health [...]

Lafayette, Louisiana-based Acadiana Computer Services Inc., provides software and business solutions to the [...]

In August, 28 healthcare data breaches were reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights which represents a [...]

Reliable Respiratory, a respiratory care provider located in Norwood, MA, has experienced a phishing attack [...]

The New Mexico Department of Health is conducting an investigation into how the confidential medical files of [...]

Authentic Recovery Center, a drug and alcohol treatment center based in West Los Angeles, recently [...]

An error in a Missouri Care mailing reminding parents to book well-child appointments has resulted in the [...]

Dennis and Wayne Russell’s adopted two-year old son Keon died in a tragic swimming pool [...]

Central Colorado Dermatology (CCD) has informed more than 4,000 patients that hackers have potentially [...]

Legacy Health has discovered an unauthorized individual has accessed its email system and potentially viewed [...]

The Gordon Schanzlin New Vision Institute located in La Jolla, CA, has informed thousands of patients that [...]

Anthem Inc. proposed a $115 million settlement in 2017 to resolve the class action lawsuits filed by the [...]

The mental health and substance abuse treatment provider InterAct of Michigan has announced that [...]

A data security breach has occurred in Adams County, Wisconsin where the personal identification information, [...]

Augusta University Health has announced it has experienced a data breach that has affected approximately [...]

Three Democrat lawmakers have accused the Oklahoma Department of Veteran Affairs of violating Health [...]

MedSpring Urgent Care, a network of emergency care clinics located in Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Fort [...]

Approximately 300,000 patients of SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Jefferson City, Missouri have been [...]

This is a summary of data breaches that have recently to the Department of Health and Human Services’ [...]

A phishing attack on UnityPoint Health has allowed hackers to gain access to the protected health information [...]

The protected health information (PHI) of over 19,000 patients was exposed due to an error by a transcription [...]

A data breach has been reported by Confluence Health, a non-profit health system managing Wenatchee Valley [...]

The medical records of more than 17,000 patients have been exposed in two data breaches in Oregon and [...]

A class action lawsuit filed in the aftermath of a data breach at Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Alabama in 2014 [...]

Boys Town National Research Hospital (Boys Town) in Omaha, NE has discovered that an employee was fooled by a [...]

Blue Springs Family Care in Missouri was attacked with ransomware resulting in the encryption of [...]

Ruben U. Carvajal, MD, a doctor in New York, has started informing his patients that unauthorized individuals [...]

Thompson Health’s M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center, a nursing home in Canandaigua, NY, has discovered that [...]

Reported healthcare data breaches in June 2018 increased by 13.8% month-over-month although there were 42.48% [...]

Golden Heart Administrative Professionals based in Fairbanks, AK is a billing company that serves as a [...]

Two more healthcare companies have announced they have been victims of phishing attacks that have allowed [...]

LabCorp, a major network of clinical laboratories in the U.S., experienced a cyberattack that potentially [...]

Alive Hospice in Tennessee has discovered the email accounts of two employees were compromised after the [...]

The email account of a doctor at UMC Physicians in Texas was hacked, which resulted to the potential exposure [...]

The protected health information (PHI) of 8,400 patients contained in the email account of an employee of [...]

According to a report published in The Tennessean, a Metro Health employee made an error that resulted in the [...]

The Ponemon Institute and IBM have explained several factors that impact the cost of data breaches in the [...]

The Ponemon Institute has conducted its annual Cost of a Data Breach Study on behalf of IBM Security, which [...]

An FTP server used by MedEvolve, a provider of billing and medical record services to healthcare providers, [...]

A lawsuit has been filed against Children’s Mercy Hospital following a phishing attack that resulted in the [...]

Law enforcement is investigating a former employee of Arkansas Children’s Hospital for being involved in [...]

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has informed 150,000 patients that their health data was shared for [...]

In 2016, Main Line Health Inc. based in Radnor, PA dismissed an employee named Gloria Terrell for a violation [...]

Cass Regional Medical Center in Harrisonville, MO has announced it suffered a ransomware attack at 11 am on [...]

Manitowoc County in Wisconsin fell victim to a phishing attack resulting in the theft of protected health [...]

Humana is informing members about a “sophisticated spoofing attack” which potentially resulted in [...]

A former patient information coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has been indicted by [...]

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (ADHSS) is informing ‘over 500’ persons that hackers [...]

Michigan Medicine has informed 870 of its patients that an unencrypted laptop computer has been stolen, [...]

A breach of physical protected health information (PHI) has been reported by Associated Dermatology & [...]

OhioHealth’s Grant Medical Center sent faxes containing the protected health information (PHI) of a [...]

Outdated pager systems have now been replaced by secure messaging systems in many healthcare organizations. [...]

Washington Health System has suspended a number of its employees after discovering they inappropriately [...]

In April 2018, 41 healthcare data breaches were reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights. The 29 [...]

Med Associates in Latham, NY is a health billing company that provides claims services to over 70 healthcare [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights recently issued its fourth largest [...]

An ex-employee of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, CA named Albert Torres, 51, was sentenced to [...]

Patients of two HIPAA-covered entities received notification that their protected health information (PHI) [...]

HealthEquity Inc based in Draper, UT, suffered a phishing attack which resulted in the protected health [...]

An employee working for Terros Health in Phoenix, AZ fell for a phishing scam and inadvertently disclosed [...]

Rise Wisconsin is notifying over 3,700 plan members of an incident that has potentially resulted in an [...]