- American Hospital Association published warning that hackers are now using stolen identities of employees in financial roles to trick IT help desks to gain access to network.
- City of Hope Cancer Treatment Center in Duarte, CA notified 827,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after Russian ransomware attack.
- The federal government’s Cyber Safety Review Board reported a “cascade of Microsoft’s avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion (Chinese hackers access Microsoft’s internal Exchange Online network) to succeed”
- “The board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred”
- “Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul”
- NorthBay Health of Fairfield, CA, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after a “cybersecurity incident”
- The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Prudential Insurance, headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, notified 36,000 customers that their info was exposed after cyber attack.
- Jackson County government in Missouri notified its 700,000 residents that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Omni Hotels & Resorts, headquartered in Dallas, TX, notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after cyber attack.
- Hackensack Meridian Health System was fined $100,000 for HIPAA violation for not providing timely access to patients for a copy of their PHI.
- M&D Capital Premier Billing, a Queens, NY-based billing service provider, has notified 284,326 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Ethos, aka Southwest Boston Senior Services of Massachusetts notified 14,503 patients that their PHI was exposed after a cyber attack.
- Tri-City Healthcare District Clinics in Oceanside, California notified 7,847 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Dental Health Services, headquartered in Long Beach, CA, a provider of dental health plans to individuals in California, Oregon, and Washington, has notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
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