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Health Facility suffers email hack

Multicare Health System recently announced data breach due to an email hack. The incident potentially affected 1,200 patients. The Washington health system mentioned that it has no information at this...

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Funding for bug bounty vendor

As per the recent news, one can make money in the rewarding business of security researchers for finding security vulnerabilities. HackerOne published that they have raised a $40M Series C round of...

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Hackers demand ransom to open disabled door locks

Austria’s four-star, 111-year-old Romantik Seehotel Jagerwirt mentioned that its internal systems were recently breached. Hackers disabled both the hotel’s electronic door locks and the reservation...

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Break In causes data breach

Wichita, Family Medicine East, Chartered based in Kansas reported that it suffered data breach due to theft of an unencrypted desktop computer and printer from its facility. As per the reports, an...

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Unauthorized access and data breach

Verity Health System based in California recently announced that an unauthorized access may have caused data breach. The incident affected personal information of more than 9,000 individuals. Verity...

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Data breach due to email hack

Foot and ankle surgeon Jay Berenter’s office announced data breach due to an email hack. Hackers sent some patients an email that the office employees claimed not to have sent. As per the reports, the...

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Emails forwarded to personal email account

An employee of A Multnomah County Health Department automatically forwarded all emails from county email account to a personal Google email account. The recipient email account is not maintained by the...

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Unauthorized EHR access at medical centre

Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center recently announced data breach, which has potentially affected 600 patient medical record. During routine review of employee access to the...

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Healthcare companies to increase security spending

As per the recent survey of more than 1,100 senior security executives worldwide, here are the results- Seventy six percent of global healthcare organizations plan to increase security budget Eight one...

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Data breach at rehabilitation facility

Catalina Post-Acute and Rehabilitation recently announced data breach when paper files were left in an unattended area. The patient data and certain employee information were left temporarily...

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Financial companies get new security law

The State of New York will be implementing new regulations that require banks, financial services companies to have cyber security programs and also maintain them to specific standards. “As our global...

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Data breach due to hacking

Emory Healthcare’s Orthopaedics & Spine Center and Brain Health Center (EHC) at Emory Clinic recently suffered data breach, which impacted almost 80,000 patients. Facility came to know about the...

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Data breach due to email hack

Foot and ankle surgeon Jay Berenter’s office announced data breach due to an email hack. Hackers sent some patients an email that the office employees claimed not to have sent. As per the reports, the...

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Unauthorized EHR access at medical centre

Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center recently announced data breach, which has potentially affected 600 patient medical record. During routine review of employee access to the...

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Emails forwarded to personal email account

An employee of A Multnomah County Health Department automatically forwarded all emails from county email account to a personal Google email account. The recipient email account is not maintained by the...

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Unauthorized employee access at Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) recently suffered data breach when it came to know about the unauthorized employee access to patient medical records. As per the reports, concerned employee...

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Health Facility suffers data breach due to improper shredding of paper documents

Minnesota-based Allina Health recently suffered data breach due to paper documents, which were emptied into the trash insecurely. As per the reports, proper shredding of the documents was not done....

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Emails sent to unintended recipient

Orange County Global Medical Center recently suffered data breach which involved some of its patients. As per the reports, an employee emailed an Orange County Global statistical report to an wrong...

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Verifone suffers data breach

Payment solutions provider Verifone recently announced data breach which affected its internal network. Verifone CIO and senior vice president Steve Horan sent an email to employees and contractors....

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Summit Reinsurances Services announces data breach

Summit Reinsurance Services, Inc., recently suffered data breach when it became aware of a ransomware attack on its server. Patient PHI was present was involved in the incident. Facility immediately...

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