- A hacking gang claims it nabbed data on several other payers in the cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare
- A cybercriminal group called “notchy” said it stole 4 terabytes of data
- including information on "tens of insurance companies and others," including CVS Caremark and Medicare
- “notchy” claimed it was cut out of the $22 million ransom payment UnitedHealth reportedly made to affiliate BlackCat/ALPHV, but that it still has the data.
- also said it has data on Medicare, Tricare, Loomis, Davis Vision, Health Net, MetLife and Teachers Health Trust
- CardioNet, headquartered in Pennsylvania, agreed to pay $2.5 million HIPAA fine after a breach exposed the PHI of 2,219 patients
- Federal Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center published list of top hacking groups attacking the US healthcare vertical with ransomware:
- LockBit 3.0
- ALPHV aka BlackCat
- BianLian
- Akira Ransomware
- BlackSuit
- Hunters International
- Medusa
- NoEscape
- INC RANSOM
- Meow Ransomware
- Highmark Health, headquartered in Pittsburg, PA, notified 5,256 patients that their PHI was exposed after a mailing error.
- Dr. Mary H. Maklouf Dentistry of Burlington, NC notified 1,797 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Roku has disclosed a massive data breach that has compromised more than 576,000 user accounts, marking the second security incident for the company in just a month.
- Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital of CA, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after a paper logbook was stolen.
- Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin notified 530,000 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Greylock McKinnon Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that provides litigation support, headquartered in Boston, Mass, suffered a data breach affecting 341,650 individuals
- Cattaraugus-Allegany Board of Cooperative Education Services in New York notified 15,204 students that their identities were exposed after cyber attack.
- Identity Theft Resource Center report on healthcare data breaches:
- breaches up 53% from Q1, 2023
- Data compromises have increased by 90% compared to Q1, 2023
- Minimum of 24,474,351 patients who had their PHI exposed
- 66% of breaches reported facilities have no idea of cause of network breach
- Identity Theft Resource Center report on healthcare data breaches:
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