Healthcare organizations often face obstacles in sharing cybersecurity information. Phil Englert and Errol Weiss from Health-ISAC advocate for shifting the focus from legal risks to business risks, improving incident response and building resilience through collaboration and transparency.
A Louisiana-based ambulance company that provides emergency medical care services in four states is notifying nearly 3 million people that their sensitive health information was potentially stolen in a June hack. Ransomware gang Daixin claims to have published the data on its dark web leak site.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act aims to reshape the financial services industry by introducing strict cybersecurity standards. Financial institutions must comply with the new rules by Jan. 17, 2025, or face severe penalties, said Richard Breavington, head of cyber and tech insurance at RPC.
A vendor that provides information systems and transcription services to radiology practices is alerting 411,037 people of a hack discovered last December involving the theft of sensitive data. The firm already faces at least four proposed federal class action lawsuits related to the hack.
Australian gold mining company Evolution Mining is investigating a ransomware attack that affected its IT systems but so far has not materially disrupted operations. The ransomware attack on the gold mining company follows a spate of attacks on Australian mining companies this year.
An Idaho-based medical center is notifying about 464,000 patients and employees that their sensitive information was potentially compromised in an attack detected in March. Ransomware group ThreeAM claims to have leaked on its dark web site 22-Gbytes of Kootenai Health's stolen data.
An Arizona-based technical school is notifying nearly 209,000 current and former students, parents and faculty that their personal, health and financial information was potentially compromised in a LockBit attack earlier this year. The ransomware hack is one of many hits in the education sector.
An Arkansas-based mental and behavioral health services provider is notifying more than 375,000 individuals of a data theft potentially compromising their sensitive personal and medical information. The organization already faces at least one proposed class action lawsuit in the wake of the breach.
Pharmaceutical maker Cencora - formerly AmerisourceBergen - in an updated filing this week told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that a Feb. 21 cyberattack resulted in the theft of more data than previously reported - including personal and health information.
Change Healthcare officials projected that the company's massive February cyberattack affected one-third of the American population. So why did the IT services provider's HIPAA breach report to federal regulators lowball the initial estimate, saying the cyberattack only affected 500 people?
Millions of Americans will soon receive a breach notification letter from Change Healthcare, which said on Monday that it has started the process of notifying victims of the massive cyberattack and data theft incident first detected more than five months ago.
Health benefits administrator HealthEquity, which earlier this month reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a hacking incident involving the compromised credentials of a vendor, has now told state regulators that the breach affected the information of 4.3 million individuals.
U.S. hospital chain Ascension has filed a placeholder breach report to federal regulators saying its May 8 ransomware attack affected at least 500 individuals. Meanwhile, the waiting game continues for Change Healthcare's official data breach report and individual notifications.
Software vendor MCG Health has agreed to pay $8.8 million to settle a consolidated proposed federal class action lawsuit involving a 2020 hacking incident. The suit claims the company took two years to identify and report a data theft that affected about 1.1 million people.
Ransomware group Daixin is threatening to leak sensitive medical information of 10 million patients on the dark web. The group claims to have stolen the data in an attack on Louisiana-based Acadian Ambulance - the latest in a string of incidents targeting emergency medical services.
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