Why Healthcare Security Matters

ronjor · Sep 25, 2024

14 Million Patients Impacted by US Healthcare Data Breaches in 2024

James Coker 24 Sep 2024
Most (91%) of these breaches have leveraged ransomware, with the report highlighting that attackers see the threat of exposing sensitive information held by healthcare organizations as an effective method for extorting ransom payments.
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ronjor · Oct 14, 2024

Data loss incidents impact patient care

Help Net Security October 11, 2024
92% of healthcare organizations experienced at least one cyber attack in the past 12 months, an increase from 88% in 2023, with 69% reporting disruption to patient care as a result, according to Proofpoint.
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Concerns about insecure mobile apps (eHealth) have increased to become the top cybersecurity threat in healthcare, increasing from 51% in 2023 to 59% of respondents in 2024.
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ronjor · Nov 11, 2024

Law Firm Data Breach Impacts 300,000 Presbyterian Healthcare Patients

By Eduard Kovacs November 11, 2024
The information of over 300,000 Presbyterian Healthcare Services patients was compromised as a result of a data breach at law firm Thompson Coburn.
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ronjor · Dec 11, 2024

446,000 Impacted by Center for Vein Restoration Data Breach

By Ionut Arghire December 11, 2024
For patients, the potentially compromised information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, medical record numbers, diagnosis and treatment information, health insurance information, and financial information.
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ronjor · Dec 18, 2024

Nebraska AG sues Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth for data theft after ransomware attack

Jonathan Greig December 17th, 2024
The cyberattack on Change Healthcare is one of the most consequential ransomware attacks in U.S. history, exposing the sensitive healthcare information of about 100 million Americans and paralyzing the country’s healthcare industry for weeks.
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ronjor · Dec 28, 2024

HIPAA Security Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Strengthen Cybersecurity for Electronic Protected Health Information

The NPRM proposes to strengthen the Security Rule’s standards and implementation specifications with new proposals and clarifications, including:
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ronjor · Jan 15, 2025

UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months

Zack Whittaker January 15, 2025
In an update to its data breach notice on its website on Tuesday, Change Healthcare said it has “notified its impacted customers” for whom the company has a postal address on file. The healthcare giant said it “may not have sufficient addresses for all potentially impacted individuals,” and that the website notice was to “provide customers and individuals with information about the criminal cyberattack.”
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But if you search the web for the Change Healthcare data breach notice, you’re unlikely to find the webpage in search engine results.
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stapp · Jan 25, 2025

UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates.
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The U.S. health insurance giant confirmed the latest number to TechCrunch on Friday after the markets closed.
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/24/u...ns-affected-by-change-healthcare-data-breach/

stapp · Jan 30, 2025

Ransomware attack at New York blood services provider – donors turned away during shortage crisis.
400 hospitals and med centers across 15 states rely on its products

New York Blood Center Enterprises (NYBCe) is currently in its fifth day of handling a ransomware attack that has led to system disruption.

Limited information is known at present, other than the usual boilerplate details which readers have come to expect from ransomware incident disclosures.
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/ransomware_attack_at_new_york/

ronjor · Mar 3, 2025

Healthcare Was the Most Breached Industry in 2024

By Steve Alder on Feb 25, 2025
A recent report from the financial and risk advisory firm Kroll has confirmed that healthcare is now the primary target for cybercriminals, having overtaken finance for data breaches in 2024. In 2024, healthcare accounted for almost one-quarter (23%) of all data breaches, overtaking finance (22%), albeit by the smallest of margins. In 2023, finance topped the list with 26% of data breaches with healthcare in second place with 18% of data breaches.
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stapp · Mar 5, 2025

Qilin ransomware gang claims attacks on cancer clinic, OB-GYN facility

Qilin – the "no regrets" ransomware crew wreaking havoc on the global healthcare industry – just claimed responsibility for fresh attacks on a cancer treatment clinic in Japan and a women's healthcare facility in the US.

Qilin is the same group responsible for multiple attacks on healthcare orgs across the globe including one that locked up pathology labs across NHS facilities in the UK for weeks, and its spokesperson once famously told The Reg in an interview that it had no regrets, even after seeing the extensive disruption it caused to people's healthcare.
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/qilin_ransomware_credit/

ronjor · Mar 28, 2025

Healthcare’s alarming cybersecurity reality

Help Net Security March 28, 2025
89% of healthcare organizations have the top 1% of riskiest Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices – which contain known exploitable vulnerabilities (KEVs) linked to active ransomware campaigns as well as an insecure connection to the internet – on their networks, according to Claroty.
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ronjor · Apr 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM

Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years

Zack Whittaker April 23, 2025
Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California is notifying millions of people of a data breach. The company confirmed on Wednesday that it had been sharing patients’ private health information with tech and advertising giant Google since 2021.
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ronjor · Apr 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM

5.5 Million Patients Affected by Data Breach at Yale New Haven Health

Eduard Kovacs April 24, 2025
Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), which operates several hospitals in Connecticut, recently disclosed a data breach impacting the personal information of millions of patients.
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Many healthcare organizations disclosed significant data breaches in recent years. According to HHS data, more than 700 healthcare data breaches were reported last year in the United States, with the total number of compromised records exceeding 180 million.
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