Eye Care Cyberattack Affects 500K Patients
Wolfe Eye Clinic, based in Iowa, suffered a cyberattack that gave hackers access to their patient files. The eye care cyberattack potentially affected 500,000 patients that had been treated [...]
Wolfe Eye Clinic, based in Iowa, suffered a cyberattack that gave hackers access to their patient files. The eye care cyberattack potentially affected 500,000 patients that had been treated [...]
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, [...]
It was recently reported that the protected health information of 7,600 patients was exposed due to software programming errors. ZocDoc, a company that enables patients to self-schedule [...]
Each month, we review the breaches occurring in the previous month to determine what the leading cause of that month’s breaches are. April healthcare breaches affected 2,623,378 [...]
Ransomware attacks continue to rise, especially those targeting healthcare organizations. Hackers often target healthcare organizations in ransomware attacks to disrupt operations in hopes that the organization will pay a [...]
On April 20, 2021, Elekta, a cancer software provider, was targeted by a healthcare ransomware attack. Through the attack, hackers were able to access Elekta’s cloud-based software, used to [...]
We have reached the time of the month where we take a look at the previous month’s healthcare breaches. March saw a whopping 62 healthcare breaches, affecting 2,913,084 [...]
GitHub is an open-source software development hosting website, with millions of developers building and maintaining their software on the platform. In December of 2020, GitHub was notified by security [...]
There have been several instances reported recently in which a terminated employee has violated HIPAA by accessing patient information after they have been fired. This can cause major implications [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) publicly posts breaches affecting 500 or more patients to its breach portal. There were 45 incidents [...]