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HIPAA Journal
MAY 10, 2023
McPherson Hospital – Ransomware Attack McPherson Hospital in Kansas has recently issued notification letters to 19,020 patients to alert them about a July 2022 ransomware attack. McPherson Hospital said its technical safeguards have been reviewed and enhanced to prevent similar incidents in the future.
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
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Salud Family Health Provides Update on September 2022 Ransomware Attack. Colorado-based Salud Family Health, a Federal Qualified Health Center (FQHC), has recently provided an update on a September 2022 cyberattack and has confirmed that patient data was potentially stolen. The electronic record system was unaffected.
Hall Render
MAY 17, 2024
NATIONAL A deep dive into health system and health plan Q1 earnings Amazon building ‘modern pharmacy’ of the future: Medical Officer Breaking down the FTC noncompete ban, its impact on healthcare CISA, HHS warn healthcare of Black Basta ransomware attacks CMS extends Medicaid waivers to 2025 Could providers be liable in Change outage?
Compliancy Group
MAY 27, 2022
35% of healthcare breaches involved ransomware attacks, vs. 20% in 2020. The average ransomware payment for healthcare was $875,784, about one-third less than the 2020 payment. 82% of ransomware attacks claimed to have removed data before encryption. Partnership Health Plan (California) . South Shore Hospital (Chicago).
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 24, 2022
The breach notice uploaded to Chelan Douglas Health District website does not disclose when the breach was detected but says a third-party cybersecurity company was engaged to investigate the cyberattack and confirmed that its network was accessed by unauthorized individuals between July 2 and July 4, 2021.
Compliancy Group
JANUARY 25, 2022
The 2015 total included the largest single healthcare data breach on record – health insurer Anthem’s 77.8 Other findings in the report included: Ransomware-related data breaches have doubled in each of the past two years. We may look back at 2021 as the year when we moved from the era of identity theft to identity fraud.
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