Cybersecurity Updates
- Kyoto University of Japan lost 77 terabytes of critical research data after a flawed update was sent out by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
- 67% of respondents to survey claim that they have experienced at least one ransomware attack in last 12 months
- Morgan Stanley Corp. agreed to pay $60 million to settle lawsuit regarding breach that happened in 2016.
- CyberEdge Group publishes survey on what CIOs plan to buy in 2022 for endpoint security:
o 22.2% = antimalware
o 30.4% = data loss
o 36.1% = machine learning
o 32.9% = whitelist/blacklist
o 34.4% = disk encryption
o 35.8% = digital forensics - Finalsite Software, headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, is a provider of digital marketing and communications, notified an unknown number of schools which are customers, that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Bernalillo County government of New Mexico notified an unknown number of residents that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Element Solutions of Florida notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after cybersecurity incident
- Compton and Broomhead Dental Center in Indiana (C&B Dental Center) notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack
- Phoenix, AZ police are investigating who dumped a large box of paper medical records in an alley near 24th Street and Cactus Road.
- Jefferson Surgical Clinic of Virginia notified 174,769 patients that their PHI was exposed after data breach.
- Fertility Centers of Illinois notified 80,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyberattack.
- Ciox Health, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, provider of healthcare info management, reported that an email phishing attack may have exposed PHI of following customers:
- AdventHealth of Florida
- Baptist Memorial Health of Tennessee
- Butler Health of Pennsylvania
- Cameron Health of Indiana
- Centra Health of Virginia
- Children’s Health of Georgia
- Coastal Health of Mississippi
- Copley Health of Vermont
- Desoto Health of Florida
- Evergreen Health of Washington
- Many more
- QRS Software of Knoxville, TN, provider of the Paradigm EHRs, is being sued due to breach that exposed PHI of up to 320,000 patients across the USA.
- Monroe Public School District of Michigan notified an unknown number of students that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Adirondack Health of New York notified 4,000 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after mailing error.
- Broward Health of Florida notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after ransomware attack.