Aspen Dental Hit by Massive Hacking Incident

In late April 2023, Aspen Dental announced that it was the victim of a cyberattack that shut down its appointment scheduling systems, phone systems, and other business applications. Although it is still unclear if hackers were able to access patient files, Aspen Dental has more than 1,000 locations across the country, if patient information was affected, the incident may be the biggest healthcare breach this year. [...]

2023-07-24T16:08:06-04:00May 4th, 2023|

AZ’s Banner Health to Pay $1.25 Million Following 2016 Hack

Groundhog Day 2023 means two years of following a corrective action plan and a $1.25 million settlement for Banner Health Affiliated Covered Entities (Banner Health) following the announcement of a Resolution Agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The settlement and resolution agreement follow an investigation of a 2016 hacking incident that exposed the [...]

2023-07-25T11:05:37-04:00February 3rd, 2023|

July 2022 Healthcare Breach Report

Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more patients to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised. July proved to [...]

2023-07-26T11:50:48-04:00August 22nd, 2022|

June 2022 Healthcare Breach Report

Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more patients to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised. June was another [...]

2023-07-26T14:16:00-04:00July 22nd, 2022|

500K Patients Affected by Adaptive Health Integrations Breach

Adaptive Health Integrations, based in North Dakota, reported an incident of unauthorized access to protected health information. There were potentially 510,574 patients affected in the massive breach. More details regarding the Adaptive Health Integrations Breach are discussed below. How Did the Adaptive Health Integrations Breach Occur? What’s Their Response? According to a breach notice released by Adaptive Health Integrations, they had [...]

2023-08-16T12:41:54-04:00April 20th, 2022|

March 2022 Healthcare Breach Report

Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more patients to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised. Cybercriminals hit a [...]

2023-07-27T10:09:41-04:00April 4th, 2022|