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Lehigh Valley Health Network and Maternal & Family Health Services Face Lawsuit Over Ransomware Attack
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is facing a lawsuit om association with its latest BlackCat…
Data Breaches Reported by Dental Health Management Solutions, Nursing Rehab Centre, The Chautauqua Center, Northeast Surgical Group, and White Bird Clinic
Dental Health Management Solutions Alerted Patients About Historic Data Breach Dental Health Management Solutions (DHMS)…
DoppelPaymer Ransomware Core Members and Medicare Beneficiary Identifier Theft Conspirator Arrested
DoppelPaymer Ransomware Core Members Arrested in Europol-Driven Operation Two persons alleged of being key DoppelPaymer…
HPH Sector Warned Against Clop Cyberattacks and MedusaLocker Ransomware Attacks
At the beginning of February, attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-0669) found in Fortra’s GoAnywhere…
Roundup of Recent Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
mscripts Cloud Storage Misconfiguration Exposed PHI for 6 Years The mobile pharmacy company, mscripts, has…
GoAnywhere MFT Hack Impacts Up to 1 Million Community Health Systems Patients and Growing Gootloader Attacks
Community Health Systems based in Franklin, TN recently reported being affected by a security incident…
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Data Privacy
Data Breaches Reported by Dental Health Management Solutions, Nursing Rehab Centre, The Chautauqua Center, Northeast Surgical Group, and White Bird Clinic
Dental Health Management Solutions Alerted Patients About Historic Data Breach Dental Health Management Solutions (DHMS) based in Cedar Park, TX provides the military/government and private individuals with dental services. It…
Roundup of Recent Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
mscripts Cloud Storage Misconfiguration Exposed PHI for 6 Years The mobile pharmacy company, mscripts, has just reported that its misconfigured cloud storage environment resulted in the exposure of client information…
Applications of AI in Healthcare
The subject of AI in healthcare frequently gets different responses. Although a number of people believe in the advantages of using AI in healthcare and the substantial rewards to patients,…
Data Security
HPH Sector Warned Against Clop Cyberattacks and MedusaLocker Ransomware Attacks
At the beginning of February, attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-0669) found in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer software on over 130 companies, which include a few companies in…
Cyber Attacks on VMware ESXi Servers, Sharp HealthCare, Regal Medical Group, and Southeast Colorado Hospital District
The French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) issued a warning regarding a persistent ransomware campaign attacking VMware ESXi hypervisors without patching against the critical heap-overflow vulnerability monitored as CVE-2021-21974. VMware…
HPH Sector Cautioned About Pro-Russian Hacktivist Group’s DDoS Attacks
The healthcare and public health (HPH) industry has been cautioned regarding the likelihood of cyberattacks conducted by a pro-Russian hacktivist gang called KillNet, after a new cyberattack on a U.S….
HIPAA and HITECH Compliance
Lehigh Valley Health Network and Maternal & Family Health Services Face Lawsuit Over Ransomware Attack
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is facing a lawsuit om association with its latest BlackCat ransomware attack. The attack resulted in the encryption of files after exfiltrating data as is…
DoppelPaymer Ransomware Core Members and Medicare Beneficiary Identifier Theft Conspirator Arrested
DoppelPaymer Ransomware Core Members Arrested in Europol-Driven Operation Two persons alleged of being key DoppelPaymer ransomware group members were detained — one by the police in Germany and another by…
Ransomware Income Decrease as Victims Decline to Pay Ransoms
Ransomware groups are profiting less from their attacks as fewer victims give ransom payments to get the decryption keys and keep the stolen data from being exposed, according to two…
IT Security Breaches
GoAnywhere MFT Hack Impacts Up to 1 Million Community Health Systems Patients and Growing Gootloader Attacks
Community Health Systems based in Franklin, TN recently reported being affected by a security incident that happened at cybersecurity firm, Fortra. Unauthorized people acquired access to the protected health information…
Round-up of Cyberattacks and Data Breaches Affecting Healthcare Organizations
Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered in OpenEMR Health Record and Practice Management Software More than 100,000 healthcare providers across the globe use the open source electronic health record and medical practice management…
Retreat Behavioral Health, Maternal & Family Health Services, and L. Knife & Son Reported Data Breaches
Maternal & Family Health Services based in Eastern Pennsylvania lately informed a number of patients regarding a ransomware attack on April 4, 2022 that resulted in the exposure of sensitive…