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Security Survey Conducted by SailPoint Market Pulse

SailPoint Market Pulse conducted survey which showed interesting results. According to the result, 20 percent of respondents said they would sell their passwords to a third party. Twenty percent of...

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Cyber Security Budgets Not In Tune With Rising Threats

Businesses are increasing their investment in cyber security but the landscape of threat is changing very rapidly. To remain secured one has to understand the possibility of cyber attacks in advance...

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Computer Virus Causes Data Breach

Mercy Iowa City, an acute care hospital and regional referral center, recently suffered data breach  due to computer virus. Mercy Lowa City did not mention the number of affected individuals but the...

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Healthcare Data Security and Hackers

In recent times, hackers are looking for innovative ways to infiltrate through covered networks. With digitization of healthcare industry comes challenges to secure patient information. But the change...

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Data Breach Due to Email Misconduct

Val Verde Regional Medical Center recently announced data breach when unsecured PHI in an email was discovered. “On or about August 9, 2015, an independent healthcare provider downloaded unsecured...

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Stolen laptop and data breach

Laptop theft can lead to data breach. OptumRx, the pharmacy care branch of a health services and technology company in Minnesota suffered data breach due to the theft incident. An unencrypted laptop...

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Unsecured database and data breach

Einstein Healthcare Network announced possible data breach when one of its databases was left unsecured on its website. Einstein Healthcare Network is a Pennsylvania-based healthcare network. The...

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Computer glitch and Data Breach

Laborers’ Health & Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California discovered that a computer glitch caused certain consumer health information to be processed incorrectly. The incident affected the...

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Hospitals and Ransomware

The Ottawa Hospital, Kentucky Methodist Hospital, Chino Valley Medical Center and Desert Valley Hospital was recently infected with ransomware. As per Kentucky Methodist Hospital, “Methodist Hospital...

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Cyberattacks remains major concern for healthcare industry

According to the recent survey by Symantec Corporation on healthcare cybersecurity, cyberattacks were the top reason behind healthcare data breaches in 2015. Many healthcare facilities are now focusing...

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Ransomware and Data Breach

“Is ransomware considered a health data breach under HIPAA?”. The answer is explored in the recent issue of Forbes magazine by author Dan Munro. He researched healthcare and compliance domains...

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Hacking Incident and Data Breach

The Pain Treatment Centers of America (PTCOA) and Interventional Surgery Institute (ISI), a healthcare network in Arkansas suffered a potential data breach. The incident came to notice when  a vendor...

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Stolen flash drive and data breach

A dental clinic in Wisconsin recently suffered a healthcare data breach after theft incident. Flash drive containing patient information was stolen. According to the reports, flash drive stored dental...

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Robbery and Data breach

A California-based chiropractic office, Vibrant Body Wellness suffered data breach after its facility was burgled. The incident affected around 600 patients.  According to the reports, laptop and hard...

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Stolen laptop and Data breach

EqualizeRCM Systems, a billing and collection services vendor recently suffered healthcare incident when one of its laptop was stolen. Laptop contained patients information which included names,...

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Lab Results and Data Breach

BioReference Laboratories in New Jersey may have suffered possible data breach when  photographs containing PHI were sent in an unsecured email. According to the reports, some of its phlebotomists took...

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Identity and Access Management

Research director Felix Gaehtgens at the Gartner Identity and Access Management (IAM) Conference in London mentioned that issuing one-time password (OTP) tokens to third-party organizations can cause...

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Malicious email and data breach

Mayfield Brain and Spine may have suffered data breach due to malicious emails. It has notified some patients about the healthcare ransomware incident. According to OCR reporting tool, the breach has...

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Internet and PHI breach

The Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC may have recently suffered data breach as few of its document where available on the internet. The incident may have occurred in February....

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A medical group suffers data breach

Hacking incident may have affected medical group in Texas. The incident may have exposed patient and employee information. According to the reports, approximately 50,000 individuals were affected by...

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