Ransomware leads to data breach
Arizona-based Desert Care Family & Sports Medicine recently announced data breach due to ransomware attack. The incident has affected up to 500 patient records. Desert Care has notified local...
View ArticleUkraine Blackout
According to the Ukraine’s national power company Ukrenergo, blackout in Kiev was due to cyber attack. Initial reports suggested that workstations and SCADA systems at a 330-kilowatt substation were...
View ArticleCoPilot security breach
CoPilot Provider Support Services, Inc. recently suffered a data breach. Facility mentioned that it detected unauthorized access at one of its databases. Potentially affected patients of this incident...
View ArticleData breach due to hacking
Emory Healthcare’s Orthopaedics & Spine Center and Brain Health Center (EHC) at Emory Clinic recently suffered data breach, which impacted almost 80,000 patients. Facility came to know about the...
View ArticleHealth Facility suffers data breach due to improper shredding of paper documents
Minnesota-based Allina Health recently suffered data breach due to paper documents, which were emptied into the trash insecurely. As per the reports, proper shredding of the documents was not done....
View ArticleEmails sent to unintended recipient
Orange County Global Medical Center recently suffered data breach which involved some of its patients. As per the reports, an employee emailed an Orange County Global statistical report to an wrong...
View ArticleCIA hacking docs on WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks published the 1st part of documents which it claims are retrieved from U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The initial upload consists of 8,761 documents and files. “Recently, the CIA lost...
View ArticleVerifone suffers data breach
Payment solutions provider Verifone recently announced data breach which affected its internal network. Verifone CIO and senior vice president Steve Horan sent an email to employees and contractors....
View ArticleSummit Reinsurances Services announces data breach
Summit Reinsurance Services, Inc., recently suffered data breach when it became aware of a ransomware attack on its server. Patient PHI was present was involved in the incident. Facility immediately...
View ArticleData breaches due to unauthorized access
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System recently announced data breach which affected over 2,700 patients. The incident occurred due to unauthorized access over a three-year period between...
View ArticleData breach at JobLink
America’s JobLink (AJL) recently suffered data breach due to hacking incident. It works with state governments to help job seekers with necessary information across the United States. As per the...
View ArticleiCloud hacking incident
“Turkish Crime Family”, the group of hacker is threatening to reset millions of iCloud accounts and delete all data from iPhones if ransom of $75,000 in crypto currency or $100,000 in iTunes gift cards...
View ArticleData breach at UNC
University of North Carolina Health Care recently suffered data breach. It is notifying patients of a potential data breach at two UNC Health Care obstetric clinics. The incident involved PHI of 1,300...
View ArticleInsider security breach at KY
Kentucky-based Med Center Health mentioned that a former employee accessed certain patient billing information without permission. As per the reports, facility found out that on two instances the...
View ArticleData breach trends in 2016
As per the IBM report, data breach increased 566 percent in 2016 from 600 million to more than 4 billion. The report also mentioned that healthcare in no longer the most attacked sector. Most of the...
View ArticleRansomeware attack at ABCD
ABCD Pediatrics recently suffered ransomware attack. According to the statement, a virus was inserted to gain access to the healthcare organization’s servers. Patient data was encrypted in the process....
View ArticleKeeping sensitive information from leaks
Today companies needs to keep the data very secure due to need of protecting corporate data and also regulations which require consumer data to be protected. EU General Data Protection Regulation...
View ArticleHacking of Amazon third-party sellers’ accounts
Hackers use passwords for high-profile breaches to compromise Amazon third-party sellers’ accounts. The attackers stole tens of thousands of dollars from sellers’ accounts. They also posted nonexistent...
View ArticleEncryption strategy for enterprises
A Recent survey of Thales’ 2017 Global Encryption Trends Study shows that only 41 percent of enterprises have an encryption strategy which has consistency throughout the company. Other findings of the...
View ArticleFirms to spend more on cyber security
As per the recent Duff & Phelps survey, eighty-six percent of financial services firms are planning to spend more time and resources on cyber security in this year. In 2016, only 60 percent said...
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