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Identity and Access Management

Research director Felix Gaehtgens at the Gartner Identity and Access Management (IAM) Conference in London mentioned that issuing one-time password (OTP) tokens to third-party organizations can cause...

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Malicious email and data breach

Mayfield Brain and Spine may have suffered data breach due to malicious emails. It has notified some patients about the healthcare ransomware incident. According to OCR reporting tool, the breach has...

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Internet and PHI breach

The Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC may have recently suffered data breach as few of its document where available on the internet. The incident may have occurred in February....

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A medical group suffers data breach

Hacking incident may have affected medical group in Texas. The incident may have exposed patient and employee information. According to the reports, approximately 50,000 individuals were affected by...

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Theft exposed PHI information

Some incarcerated patients at the California Correctional Healthcare Services are affected by the potential healthcare data breach. Affected information included PHI or personally identifiable...

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Hacking incident and data breach

Indiana-based Lafayette Pain Care PC recently suffered probable data breach after an outside entity accessed some patients EHR data. According to the OCR data breach portal, around 7,500 individuals...

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Unauthorized access and data breach

The Southeast Eye Institute, PA, or Eye Associates of Pinellas recently suffered a possible healthcare data breach. The incident occurred due to hacking incident.  An unauthorized party accessed...

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Employee misuse results in potential healthcare data breach

Inappropriate access to patient information over seven years has resulted in a possible PHI breach at an Iowan hospital, as per the report. Around 1,620 patients have been notified by UnityPoint...

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Mis-mailing and data breach

Coordinated Health Mutual, Inc. recently suffered data breach which affected around 591 individuals  as per the Office of Civil Rights data breach portal. Facility confirmed the healthcare data...

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EHR system hacked

A Pennsylvania-based healthcare facility suffered potential data breach when unauthorized users hacked into its EHR system. The system was managed by Bizmatics. The incident has potentially affected...

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EHR vendor and data breach

Healthcare organization, Vincent Vein Center has notified patients of a potential healthcare data breach. The incident was result of the hacking incident at Bizmatics, a vendor who manages EHR for...

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Bizmatics and data breach

As per the HIPAA notification letter on the ENT and Allergy Center’s website, yet another medical center suffered potential healthcare data breach due to hacking incident. Affected information included...

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Financial companies get new security law

The State of New York will be implementing new regulations that require banks, financial services companies to have cyber security programs and also maintain them to specific standards. “As our global...

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Data breach due to computer virus

Lane Community College (LCC) health clinic recently announced data breach when one of its technician  found a computer virus in the system. The incident has affected PHI of some patients. As per the...

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Ransomeware 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....

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Keeping 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...

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Stolen laptop leads to data breach

Lifespan Corporation recently suffered a possible data breach due to stolen laptop. The device belongs to Lifespan employee. An individual broke into employee’s car and stole laptop along with other...

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Security Patch at Twitter

One can send message to anyone using ‘@‘ from any given account in Twitter platform. But this arrangement is challenged by a security bug. Security researcher who goes by alias ‘Kedrisch’ reported this...

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Half of the third party softwares are outdated

Synopsys conducted a study of 128,782 software applications which shows that almost fifty percent are old. “Over time, vulnerabilities in third-party components are discovered and disclosed, leaving a...

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Series B funding for Trusona

Before four months, Ariz.-based Trusona has Series A funding of $8 million. Now, they have got additional funding of $10 million in a Series B round. This new round was led by Microsoft Ventures along...

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