HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2024

UnitedHealth Group’s technology unit, Change Healthcare, is currently facing an ongoing ransomware attack which has reverberated through healthcare systems and affected prescription deliveries. Phishing attacks, a common vector for ransomware infections, often exploit human vulnerabilities through deceptive emails and other communications.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

Vulnerabilities in its website had not been addressed by its business associate since 2013 and those vulnerabilities were exploited by hackers who gained access to the sensitive data of 3,500,000 individuals who applied for health insurance between 2013 and 2020.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 27, 2022

In September 2015, Excellus filed a breach report with the OCR, disclosing that cybercriminals had free access to patient files containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) from December 2013 through May 2015. Let’s Simplify Compliance Protect your business from lawsuits by becoming HIPAA compliant today! Learn More! ×

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Compliancy Group

JULY 13, 2022

A survey from 2013 noted that employee snooping was the most common cause of security breaches. Lost or stolen devices and ransomware attacks may result in more significant numbers of records being breached, but employee snooping is responsible for more incidents. Is it serious? How will this affect me and those around me?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Unsecure telehealth connections can open the door for fraud, phishing and ransomware attacks, with serious reputational and financial consequences. "Last year, ransomware attacks cost the healthcare industry $20.8 Progressive Therapeutics has been using Azalea's EHR-integrated telehealth solution since 2013.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 30, 2023

The LockBit ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack and leaked some of the stolen data on its dark web data leak site as proof of data theft, and demanded a $10 million ransom to prevent the publication of all of the stolen data. MCNA said it is unaware of any attempted or actual misuse of the affected data.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2023

2023 New York Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach LLP $200,000 61,438 Ransomware attack and data breach Violation of 17 provisions of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules 2023 Pennsylvania DNA Diagnostics Center $200,000 33,000 Stolen database containing 2.1 2023 Ohio DNA Diagnostics Center $200,000 12,600 Stolen database containing 2.1

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