Hacking incidents, including those involving ransomware attacks or vendors, that affect tens of millions of individuals, continue to account for the majority of health data breaches reported to federal regulators so far this year. What are the other emerging breach trends?
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Ransomware continues to be the biggest threat to the European healthcare sector, but the region also is experiencing an uptick in distributed denial-of-service attacks tied to hacktivist groups, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity warned.
A ransomware attack in May that and compromised the sensitive information of 319,500 individuals, including addiction treatment center patient data, has so far generated three proposed federal class action lawsuits against the Pennsylvania real estate firm that owns the medical group.
A Tennessee medical clinic and surgical center is notifying more than half a million patients and employees that their personal information may have been stolen by cybercriminals in an April cyberattack that disrupted healthcare services for several days.
Federal regulators are once again reminding healthcare entities and their vendors of the importance of using strong multifactor authentication to help fend off hacks and other compromises, but they also warn about avoiding common mistakes with MFA.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has notified Congress that the information of at least 100,000 individuals has been compromised in hacking incidents at HHS contractors involving exploitation of a flaw in managed file transfer software MOVEit from Progress Software.
The sensitive personal information of about 1.1 million National Health Service patients including trauma patients and victims of terrorism is reportedly among data compromised in a recent cyberattack on the United Kingdom's University of Manchester. The incident also affected students and alumni.
Federal regulators have issued a warning about a vulnerability in medical device maker Medtronic's Paceart Optima System which, if exploited, could lead to a denial-of-service or remote code execution affecting the system's cardiac device data.
A firm that provides coding and billing services to healthcare entities has agreed to pay federal regulators a $75,000 fine and implement a corrective action plan in the wake of an exfiltration incident that compromised patient data contained in an unsecured network server.
A Cleveland-based healthcare system is notifying a not-yet-disclosed number of individuals about an incident involving unauthorized medical records access by an employee that continued for 15 years. The safety-net organization says the worker has been disciplined.
As generative AI applications become more common in healthcare, organizations will need to carefully consider critical third-party risk issues involving the use of these technologies, said Damian Chung, business information security officer at security firm Netskope.
Search engine optimization poisoning attacks, which involve intentionally manipulating search results to lead users onto malware-laced websites, are on the rise in the healthcare sector, U.S. federal regulators warn. Users should watch for typosquatting, keyword stuffing, meta tagging and cloaking.
A proposed federal class action lawsuit alleges that patient debt collection software firm Intellihartx was negligent in its handling of third-party risk, contributing to a breach affecting nearly 490,000 individuals and involving a recent hack on its file transfer software vendor Fortra.
State regulators have fined health plan Kaiser Permanente $450,000 for a mailing mishap that sent private health plan records to the outdated addresses of 167,095 patients. The erroneous mailing was triggered by a technical update of the health plan's electronic health records system.
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