cybersecurity breaches in the news
- Ascension Michigan Health System notified 27,177 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Duncan Regional Hospital (aka DRH Health) of Stephens County, Oklahoma, notified 92,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Norwood Clinics of Alabama notified 228,103 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Bako Diagnostics, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, notified 25,745 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Montrose Regional Health of Colorado notified 52,632 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Samsung Electronics notified an unknown number of employees and customers that their info may have been exposed after cyber attack.
- District School 518 of Worthington, Minnesota notified an unknown number of students that their info may have been exposed after email phishing attack.
- Herff Jones Corp. of Indiana agreed to pay $4.35 million to settle allegations of negligence after breach exposed info on its customers.
- Hilliard City School District of Ohio notified 4,200 students that their info was exposed after email mistake by employee.
- Fleetwood Area School District of Pennsylvania notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
- The FBI published warning stating that hackers are now impersonating government officials and/or law enforcement agencies to extort employees and steal company info.
- Toyota Motor Co. announced that it temporarily shut down all of its plants in Japan after one of its major
suppliers was hit by cyber attack. - The Mann-Grandstaff Medical Center of Spokane, WA notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed during “computer issues”
- UMass Memorial Health employees have filed a lawsuit against the Worcester, Mass.-based system, claiming they did not receive wages owed to them after hackers infiltrated the payroll system in December.