- Weirton Medical Center of West Virginia notified 26,793 patients that their PHI was exposed after a cyber attack.
- Protenus published their annual 2024 Healthcare Breach Barometer:
- 171 million patients may have had their medical identities (PHI) stoen in 2023
- Number of breaches up 2%
- Number of PHI records stolen up 187%
- Hacking is cause of 97% of PHI breaches
- Average of 79 days before breach is discovered
- Average total cost of breach = $10.9 million
- The London Clinic of England is investigating hospital staff due to claims that they illegally accessed the PHI of the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, and may have sold to the press.
- Robert Purbeck of Idaho was found guilty of hacking into the Family Medical Center of Griffin, Georgia and the City of Neuman of Georgia.
- Had stolen over 132,000 identities of people in Georgia
- Nations Direct Mortgage, headquartered in Texas, notified an unknown number of customers that their info was exposed after a breach.
- US Department of Defense announced it processed 50,000 reports of security vulnerabilities in 11/2016.
- 27,000 of these have been resolved.
- Fujitsu Corp. of Japan notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after cyber attack.
- Sharp Healthcare and University of California-San Diego Health both may be notifying a large number of patients that their PHI might have been exposed during recent “computer outage”
- Jason Gray, a US Airforce intelligence analyst stationed in Alaska, was arrested after allegedly scan classified documents and sharing with anti-government “Boogaloo” group.
- Facing prison sentence of 16 years
- During the recent Pwn2Own hacking convention in Vancouver, Washington, participants won prize money for showing how to hack into Tesla electric cars.
- The Emergency Medical Services Authority, with offices in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, OK, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- The American Renal Associates (now known as Innovative Renal Care), with over 230 locations across the United States, and headquartered in Nashville, TN, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Convergent Outsourcing Inc., a debt-collection agency, settled a data breach class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington for $2.45 million. The class action suit against Convergent alleged that the business failed to protect the personal information of over 640,000 individuals
- Long Island Plastic Surgical Group of New York, with 10 locations, is notifying an unknown number of patients that their PHI was stolen by ransomware attack.
- Petersen Health Care, headquartered in Peoria, IL, one of the largest operators of nursing homes in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Delaware bankruptcy court on Wednesday following cyberattacks that led to defaults on government-backed loans.
- Tennessee Orthopaedic Clinics, headquartered in Knoxville, TN, has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a March 2023 cyberattack and data breach that affected 46,679 individuals.
- Valley Oaks Health in Niles, IL, has recently notified 50,352 individuals about a breach of its network environment.
- Sycamore Rehabilitation Services, Inc. in Danville, IL, has reported a breach of its email system and the exposure of the personal data of 3,414 individuals.
- Plymouth Tube Company in Warrenville, IL, has identified unauthorized access to its computer network exposing confidential info of 2,652 employees.
- Dignity Health’s St. Rose Dominican Hospital de Lima of Henderson, Nevada, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children, Inc. in Bayside, NY, notified 5,650 patients that their PHI was stolen during cyber attack.
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