These deficiencies resulted in a 2020 email data breach during which hackers accessed an EyeCare email account containing a treasure trove of patient health information. The $600,000 settlement of [...]
It has been a tough year for cybersecurity professionals as hacking groups and ransomware criminals have exposed the records of more than 40 million Americans during an [...]
Several major health systems have reported an onslaught of phishing, spoofing, and ransomware incidents. While these healthcare cyber attacks use different tactics, they all have the same end goal [...]
What Does the SLAM Acronym Stand For? The SLAM acronym can be used as a reminder of what to look for to identify possible phishing emails. The SLAM acronym [...]
In July 2021, UC San Diego Health notified the public that it had been the victim of a four-month long phishing attack that gave hackers access to [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) publicly posts breaches affecting 500 or more patients to their online breach portal, known [...]
As hackers become more sophisticated, it is important to keep up to date with new threats. There are two new threats that are concerning in that they are difficult [...]
Malware and ransomware attacks have become more prevalent in recent times across all industries and market sectors. Large-scale attacks such as the ones perpetrated on Colonial Pipeline [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) publicly posts breaches affecting 500 or more patients on their online breach portal. Each month, we [...]
Every month we release a summary of the previous month’s healthcare breaches, and determine the leading cause behind that month’s breaches. In May 2021, there were 60 breaches reported, [...]
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