- The federal government published warning for healthcare industry of 3 hacking groups that are attacking healthcare organizations of all sizes:
- Hive
- Lapus$
- Conti
- Adaptive Health Integrations of Williston, North Dakota notified 510,600 patients that their PHI was exposed after a hacking incident.
- Urgent Team Holdings, headquartered in Nashville, TN notified 166,600 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber security attack.
- Kiteworks published results of survey:
- 65% admit that they share info with more than 1,000 external organization
- 66% use more than 4 separate systems to track, control and secure content communications
- Dealing with encryption issues consumes dozens or hundreds of hours of staff time per month
- 47% say that 100% of their email communications with third parties is encrypted
- Eye Care Leaders (ECL), headquartered in Durham, NC was sued regarding exposure of PHI after ransomware attack.
- Scripps Health of San Diego, CA notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Deaconess Health System of Evansville, IN notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after it was illegally accessed by former physician.
- Newman Regional Health of Emporia, Kansas notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attacks.
- Lenovo of China announced that millions of its laptop computers contain firmware-level security vulnerabilities
- Allows hackers to install malware that persists even if hard drive and OS are replaced
- Will issue updates to resolve problems
- Check Point Security is warning of users of LinkedIn that hackers are now launching email phishing attacks at users of the social media platform.
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