IT Security Incidents
Stay informed about real-world incidents that impact organizations and individuals. Get insights into data breaches, hacking attempts, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, along with expert analysis and recommended countermeasures.
Cottage Health System Security Inspection Exposes 11K-Record Data Break
On Tuesday Cottage Health System informed its 11,000 sick persons to instruct them that a few of their PHIs were revealed as a consequence of a server occurrence that happened in October 2015. For two … Read more
Connecticut OIG Makes $90K Pact with Hartford Hospital and BA Over 2012 Laptop Theft
Hartford Hospital as well as one of its BAs, EMC Corporation (EMC), have contracted to a settlement with the Connecticut OIG on the 2012 thievery of a laptop having the unencrypted files of 8,883 Connecticut inhabitants. Hartford … Read more
Bermuda Electricity Company Customers Targeted with Ransomware
Citizen of Bermuda and holiday home owners have been warned to be diligent following the identification of a new BELCO email scam. Guidance has now been issued by the company after some customers were targeted … Read more
Apple Malware Attack Affects 225,000 Device Owners
Apple device security is particularly robust, yet the company’s operating systems are far from impregnable as a recent Apple malware attack has shown. Apple device users have recently been targeted by hackers believed to be … Read more
Hacking Peaks List of 2015 Data Break Reasons
A study of break details for the duration of the initial 5 months of the year demonstrates that the main reason of 2015 HIPAA breaks is still hacking, which keep on to reveal patient health … Read more
Evansville Medical Center Hack Reveals HIPAA Files of 4,400
Hackers have accessed the E-mail accounts of a lot of workers of the St. Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville, Indiana, leading in the PHI of roughly 4,400 patients potentially being revealed. Randy Capehart, a spokesperson … Read more
Wellpoint Approves $1.7 Million Payment for HIPAA Breaches
Wellpoint is among the leading providers of Affiliated Health Policies, with nearly 36 million policy holders throughout the United States. Fraction of its databank of policy holders was accessible to illegal persons between October 23, … Read more
HIPAA Violation at Froedtert Health Reveals 43,000 Patient Documents
Milwaukee centered healthcare provider, Froedtert Health, has declared it has experienced a data violation that may possibly have impacted as many as 43,000 patients as a consequence of a computer virus that had contaminated an … Read more
441-Patient HIPAA Infringement Leads to 50K Fine
According to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules, healthcare companies are needed to inform data infringements involving over 500 people to the Office of Civil Rights and fiscal fines apply for HIPAA breaches; … Read more
Blue Cross Blue Shield to Reimburse HHS $1.5M for HIPAA Infringement
The Office for Civil Rights has accomplished its first implementation action developing from the HITECH Infringement Notice Rule and has penalized Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) for breaching the Security and Privacy Regulations … Read more
Health Net Penalized 55K for Late HIPAA Infringement Notice
Health Net, Connecticut-based insurance firm is to pay a penalty of $55,000 to the Office of Vermont Attorney General for HIPAA disobedience and failing to safeguard the information of the state’s policyholders after a HIPAA … Read more
