Cybersecurity
- Spokane Health District of Washington notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed
after email phishing attack. - Welfare, Pension, and Annuity Funds of Local No. ONE I.A.T.S.E. of New York notified 20,579 patients
that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack. - Loyola University Medical Center of Illinois notified 16,934 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital of Massachusetts notified 9,798 patients that their phi was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Advent Health Partners of Nashville, TN notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Caring Communities of Illinois notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed data breach.
- Jefferson Health of Philadelphia, PA notified 9,095 patients that their PHI after cyber security incident.
- Proofpoint published results of research on breaches caused by employees:
- Insider threats cost organizations $15.4 billion per year
- Increase of 34% since 2020
- 56% caused by negligence
- 26% caused by criminal insider activities
- 18% caused by stolen credentials
- - Instagram users are being targeted by hackers, where accounts are hijacked, and hackers are demandin ransom for users to regain control – report from ZDNet magazine.
- Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic of Georgia notified 53,686 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- NYU Langone Health of New York notified 1,123 patients that their PHI was exposed after direct mailing error.
- The YMCA of Charlotte, NC has notified an unknown number of members that their info was exposed after data breach
- St. Lucie’s County Drug Screening of Florida notified 14,500 patients that their PHI was exposed after it was inadvertently left exposed on a publicly accessible website.
- Griggsville-Perry School District of Pike County, IL notified an unknown number of students that their info
was exposed after ransomware attack. - Sea Mar Community Health Center of Washington notified 688,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Pennsbury School District of Pennsylvania notified an unknown number of students that their info may have been exposed after cyber attack.
- EyeMed agreed to pay $600,000 to settle litigation with state of New York regarding data breach that exposed PHI of 98,632 patients.
- $8.5 billion worth of crypto currency was laundered by hackers in 2021 according to Chainanalysis.
- Memorial Health System of Ohio now facing lawsuits after a breach that exposed PHI of 215,000 patients.
- The FBI is warning organizations in the U.S. about a new hacking group named Emennet Pasargad,
operating out of the country of Iran. - Taylor Regional Hospital of Campbellsville, Kentucky notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.