Fraud Hospitals Licensing Ransomware 
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 2, 2023
Today’s threat landscape requires them to plan for ransomware and malware attacks, protect against traditional vulnerabilities in legacy equipment, and mitigate the risk of internal threats. With those competing priorities, fraud prevention does not always make its way to the top of the list of considerations, even when it should.
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. 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.
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?
HIPAA Journal
JULY 27, 2023
Norton Healthcare, a Kentucky-based operator of more than 140 clinics and hospitals in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, is facing a class action lawsuit over a May 2023 cyberattack and data breach.
HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Credit card companies monitor for fraud and rapidly block cards and accounts if suspicious activity is detected, but misuse of healthcare data is harder to identify and can be misused in many ways before any malicious activity is detected. Many of the hacking incidents now being reported by healthcare providers involve the use of ransomware.
HIPAA Journal
DECEMBER 23, 2022
OneTouch Point – Ransomware Attack Involving 4.11 Hackers had gained access to its network and used ransomware to encrypt files, with that information also potentially stolen in the attack. Professional Finance Company – Ransomware Attack Involving 1.92 The 12 biggest HIPAA breaches of 2022 affected almost 22.66 Million Records.
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