Healthcare It News

MAY 13, 2024

The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center issued a threat alert Friday about the Russia-backed ransomware group Black Basta, warning of its accelerated attempted attacks against the healthcare sector. "It is recommended that this alert be reviewed with high urgency and the recommended technical mitigations be put in place.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 11, 2023

Healthcare ransomware attacks have at least doubled in the past 5 years, data recovery from backups has decreased, and it is now common for data to be stolen and publicly released following a successful attack, according to a new analysis recently published in the JAMA Health Forum. Out of the 374 confirmed ransomware attacks, only 20.6%

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 29, 2022

On June 25, 2022, a spokesperson for a threat group called DAIXIN Team contacted HIPAA Journal to share information about a ransomware attack and data theft incident at Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall, Missouri. DAIXIN Team was previously not known to HIPAA Journal and appears to be a new ransomware group.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

have confirmed they were recent victims of cyberattacks, both of which involved the use of ransomware. Ransomware Attack Affects 85,282 Law Enforcement Health Benefits Members. LEHB) has recently announced that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that was detected on September 14, 2021. Law Enforcement Health Benefits, Inc.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 17, 2022

According to the breach notification sent to the California Attorney General, Practice Resources was the victim of a ransomware attack on April 12, 2022. The post Ransomware Attack on New York Billing Company Affects 942K Individuals appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2022

A settlement has been proposed by Scripps Health to resolve a consolidated class action lawsuit – In Re: Scripps Health Data Incident Litigation – to resolve all claims related to its 2021 ransomware attack. The ransomware attack has proven to be incredibly costly for Scripps Health. The settlement amount is expected to exceed $3.5

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Downloaders are malicious software that often masquerade as legitimate digital documents and executables and are used to download a range of other malicious software. Emotet commonly drops the IcedID banking Trojan, which in turn often delivers ransomware payloads.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 11, 2024

A new report by Emsisoft documents an increase in ransomware attacks in the US, with 2,207 US hospitals, schools and governments directly impacted in 2023. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2022

If ransomware is not a topic of conversation around any healthcare organization’s boardroom table, directors and senior executives may be exposing the organization (and themselves) to considerable risk. Here’s a guide to ransomware trends for 2022 and steps healthcare leaders can take to help protect their organizations.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2023

Montgomery General Hospital in West Virginia has suffered a cyberattack that saw unauthorized individuals gain access to its IT systems on or around February 28, 2023, and deploy ransomware on or around March 1, 2023. The post Montgomery General Hospital Suffers Ransomware Attack and Data Leak appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The ransomware attack on Change Healthcare earlier this year upended the healthcare industry for months, with hospitals and physicians unable to submit claims or get reimbursed and patients unable to fill prescriptions. Maintain Thorough Documentation Proper documentation is the cornerstone of successfully appealing denials.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 29, 2024

To stay ahead, healthcare organizations need to proactively prepare for potential security incidents, including ransomware and business email compromise attacks, as they routinely result in data exfiltration and further compromise into a victim environment. Be honest with your incident response plans and procedures.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 6, 2023

Ransomware Attacks Remain Steady Ransomware attacks continue to be conducted in high numbers but the number of attacks has remained steady, accounting for 24% of incidents and 15.5% of data breaches – a slight increase in ransomware incidents from last year and a slight decrease in ransomware-related data breaches.

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HIPAA Vault

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Just as the world has witnessed novel variants of the COVID-19 virus (and may continue), new variants of ransomware continue to appear since the first documented case in 1989. And while loss of life, thankfully, is not yet rivaling the pandemic, poorer health outcomes for scores of patients impacted by ransomware have resulted.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 24, 2025

There was also a 278% jump in ransomware attacks in the same period. A healthcare information breach is more likely to occur under any of the following conditions: Disclosing or sharing PHI without consent or necessity Sharing PHI with the wrong entity or person An unauthorized person (i.e.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

While we haven’t seen threat actors widely exploiting the vulnerabilities in the wild, it is only a matter of time—and the results of an event like an IoMT ransomware attack will be devastating to patients’ safety and wellbeing. Forecasts estimate the market to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 23% between 2023 and 2028.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 27, 2023

Des Plaines, IL-based Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, one of the largest providers of social services in the state, has announced that its systems were compromised and ransomware was used to encrypt files. Both healthcare organizations were recently added to the data leak site of the BlackCat ransomware group.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 16, 2022

In August 2021, the Vice Society ransomware operation published data on its data leak site that had allegedly been obtained in a ransomware attack on United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley. The documents contained names, Social Security numbers, and medical record numbers.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Geli Brown at Dallas-based HHM Health talked to John about the clinical and financial benefits of using ambient clinical documentation – and how there wasn’t much need for training. Read more… Firsthand Experience With Sunoh’s AI Medical Scribe. Read more… CIO Podcast : An Award Winner in Health Equity.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Cyber Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a private industry notification that includes details of emerging techniques that are being used by ransomware gangs to gain initial access to victims’ networks. This type of attack is known as callback phishing and has been popular with ransomware gangs since 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2021

He'll discuss how he and his team have adjusted their strategies to handle the demands of virtual care and work-at-home, defended against ransomware and, hopefully, positioned themselves for a challenging future of expanded attack surfaces and relentless attacks. Those are the things that are leading to these big ransomware outbreaks.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has shared information on the Clop (Cl0p) ransomware-as-a-service operation, the affiliates of which are known to conduct attacks on the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector. Clop ransomware was first detected in February 2019 and is the successor to CryptoMix ransomware.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

The most common root cause identified in HIPAA cybersecurity incident investigations is the lack of an accurate and thorough Security Risk Analysis, resulting in breaches and ransomware attacks due to unmanaged risks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

The first is security: Ransomware attacks hit 67% of healthcare organizations in 2023, with the average payment reaching $4.4 Starting small allows organizations to fine-tune their approach while building staff confidence and documenting clear wins. The second is efficiency: physicians spend 4.5

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Becker's Health IT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The ransomware attack targeting St. Louis-based Ascension in May affected operations and the health system's revenue, according to the health system's fiscal year 2024 documents.

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Med-Net Compliance

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The second largest nonprofit hospital chain in the United States has confirmed that it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The hospital chain said that upon discovering the ransomware attack they took immediate steps to protect their systems, contain the incident, begin an investigation, and ensure continuity of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Also of note: Efforts to improve the speed of documentation and increased use of visual displays. Read more… Minimizing the Impact of Ransomware in the Cloud. Read more… A Plethora of AI Announcements at the eClinicalWorks Annual Conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

Prevention is essential, but when the inevitable outage from a ransomware attack or other disruption occurs, healthcare delivery organizations need to minimize the impact on processes that enable them to care for patients, bill for services, order supplies, and pay staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

John sat down with Caleb Manscill at Vyne Medical and chatted about AI’s role in removing the documentation burden from intake, storage, and curation of documents. Read more… Critical Condition: The Increasing Frequency of Ransomware Attacks in Healthcare.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 12, 2022

A ransomware attack on a finance company has affected more than 600 healthcare organizations. On February 26, 2022, the company detected and stopped a sophisticated ransomware attack in which an unauthorized third party accessed and disabled some of their computer systems.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 22, 2022

The largest data breach was a ransomware attack on the accounts receivable management agency, Professional Finance Company. It is unclear how many records in total were compromised in the ransomware attack. Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine also suffered a major ransomware attack. Ransomware attack. Ransomware attack.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Salud Family Health Provides Update on September 2022 Ransomware Attack. The breach was reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights using a placeholder of 501 and that figure has yet to be updated on the OCR breach portal; however, the threat actor behind the attack – the Lorenz ransomware group – has dumped a sample of the files online.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

According to court documents, the defendants set up a telemedicine scheme in which one company, HealthRight, solicited insurance coverage information and prescriptions from consumers across the country from 2015 through 2018. Smith agreed to pay restitution of nearly $25 million and forfeit about $3 million. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 16, 2025

On December 22, 2023, Retina Group of Washington, a healthcare provider with eye care clinics in Maryland and Virginia, issued notifications about a ransomware attack on March 26, 2023. Under the terms of the settlement, a $3.6 million fund will be created to cover claims, attorneys fees, and legal costs and expenses.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 26, 2023

That appears to be the case with two recent cyberattacks, neither of which mention ransomware or confirm that data theft occurred. Since it appears from the claims of the ransomware groups that data has been stolen, affected individuals should ensure they take advantage of those complimentary services. provide more information.

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Med-Net Compliance

JUNE 30, 2022

A medical center in Arizona announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack in which the attackers obtained the protected health information [PHI] of approximately 700,000 current and former patients. Document that these trainings occurred, and file the signed training document in each employee’s education file.

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Becker's Health IT

JANUARY 23, 2024

based Ardent Health Services said an unauthorized actor extracted copies of documents containing patient information from its organization and affiliates during a Nov. 23 ransomware attack. Nashville, Tenn.-based

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