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...
View ArticleFunding 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...
View ArticleHackers 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...
View ArticleBreak 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...
View ArticleUnauthorized 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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleEmails 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...
View ArticleUnauthorized 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...
View ArticleHealthcare 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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleFinancial 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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleUnauthorized 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...
View ArticleEmails 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...
View ArticleUnauthorized 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...
View ArticleHealth 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....
View ArticleEmails 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...
View ArticleVerifone 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....
View ArticleSummit 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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