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Email error and data breach

Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and Northern Idaho recently suffered data breach. It notified the affected individuals mentioning the data security incident. According to the reports, emails...

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Vendor error & data breach

CHI Franciscan Health Highline Medical Center (Highline) recently suffered data breach. Facility  notified certain patients. Vendor R-C Healthcare Management (R-C Healthcare) previously worked with...

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Burrell Behavioral Health data breach

Missouri-based Burrell Behavioral Health recently suffered data breach. Facility faced cybersecurity attack after unauthorized party accessed employee’s email account. It discovered the breach on on...

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Stolen laptop and data breach

A U.S. HealthWorks employee’s laptop was stolen which resulted in data breach. It contained patient information which affected 1,400 US HealthWorks patients. As per the reports, the device was...

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Members affected by data breach

Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) suffered data breach due to unauthorized PHI disclosure which  affected 2,814 members from 220 employers. The incident occurred due to processing error. Facility learned...

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Missing binder data breach

An Oberlin, Kansas facility suffered data breach when its binder went missing. It reported a PHI breach. Facility found out that a CAT scan log binder was not in its regular place. According to the...

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Harbin Clinic data breach

Georgia based Harbin Clinic, LLC suffered data breach recently. Facility has notified approximately 500 patients. Some of patients information may be breached after several boxes of medical records...

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Health Centre Data breach

Codman Square Health Center which is based in Massachusetts suffered data breach recently. It is notifying patients about the incident which exposed some of their information due to unauthorized HIE...

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Ransomeware attack

Oklahoma-based Saint Francis Health System recently announced data breach when its server was accessed by an unauthorized party. The reports suggests that patient information was accessed by the...

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Data breach due to printing error

A California health system recently announced data breach due to internal printing error. It may have exposed a limited amount of patient information. Facility is notifying 1,000 members affected by...

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Email error leads to data breach

St. Elizabeth Physicians recently announced data breach. Disclosed information included email addresses. Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and any other personal health or...

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Insider Threat

According to the latest survey of 500 IT professionals, one in three respondents said that their business has experienced an insider strike in the last year. Other observation includes:  Seventy four...

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HHS funding for cybersecurity efforts

Health and Human Services (HHS) was awarded a total of $350,000 in corporate agreements to improve further information sharing in the industry. It will also improve to tackle cybersecurity threats in...

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Ransomware and data breach

Urgent Care Clinic of Oxford in Mississippi recently suffered data breach due to ransomware attack.  According to the reports, the server was attacked in early July. The facility came to know about the...

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Sensitive information on internet affects 300k

Central Ohio Urology Group (COUG) recently suffered data breach. The incident may have exposed the information of patients, employees, and individuals who got the services from the facility.  As per...

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Anomaly Detection

With the price of a data breaches going up to 29 percent as compared to 2013, business leaders are under increasing pressure to execute security options in finding hazards developed in cyber security...

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Cloud Security Survey

A latest survey of 643 IT security professionals in the U.S. And Canada found that around forty eight percent of respondents do not scrutinize the cloud for malware. Another 12 percent are uncertain if...

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Vendor error leads to data breach

Arkansas-based Baxter Regional Home Health Facility (Baxter Home Health) recently suffered data breach affecting patients and employees. The incident may have resulted in exposing some of their...

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Claims document found in employee storage unit

The Virginia Department of Veterans Services (DVS) recently suffered data breach when veterans claims documents were included in the documents found in a former DVS employee’s storage unit. According...

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Data breach at CalOptima

CalOptima based in the California recently suffered data breach. It has reported the second breach in a month. According to the reports, PHI data breach has affected 56,000 individuals.  Incident...

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