Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
HealthcareInfoSec
Boston, MA, United States
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Heart Device Maker Says Hack Affected 1 Million Patients
Emergency medical device provider Zoll Medical Corp. is notifying more than 1 million individuals, including employees, as well as patients and former patients who → Read More
HHS OCR Asks Congress for Big Funding Boost
President Joe Biden's budget request for fiscal 2024 includes a big proposed boost for the federal office charged with enforcing privacy and security within the → Read More
Not-So-Cerebral Sharing of Mental Health Data Hits Millions
A provider of online mental health services is notifying nearly 3.2 million people that the company used website tracking tools to share sensitive patient → Read More
CHS to Notify 1 Million in Breach Linked to Software Flaw
Community Health Systems will soon begin notifying up to 1 million individuals estimated to have been affected by data compromise when attackers exploited a → Read More
Scrutiny Over Health Data Tracking, Disclosures Grows
Privacy concerns involving the tracking, collection and disclosure of sensitive health data of consumers - without their knowledge or consent - remain top → Read More
BlackCat Leaking Patient Data and Photos Stolen in Attack
Russian-speaking ransomware gang BlackCat is leaking data stolen from a Pennsylvania-based healthcare group, including photos of breast cancer patients. The gang → Read More
Irish Authorities Levy GDPR Fine in Centric Health Breach
Irish authorities have fined a healthcare organization 460,000 euros - about $490,000 - for a 2019 Calum ransomware breach that compromised sensitive information of → Read More
Supreme Court Hears Healthcare Identity Theft Case
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court may limit federal prosecutors' ability to bring charges of aggravated identity theft. A Texas man convicted of overbilling → Read More
Authorities Warn Healthcare Sector of Ongoing Clop Threats
Federal authorities are urging the healthcare sector to ratchet up defenses against potential assaults by Russian-linked Clop on the heels of the → Read More
5 Lawsuits Filed in Ransomware Breach Affecting 3.3 Million
Five proposed class action lawsuits have been filed so far in the wake of a California medical group's Feb. 1 report of a ransomware attack last December affecting → Read More
Pennsylvania Health System CEO Confirms BlackCat Attack
Lehigh Valley Health Network, which operates 13 hospitals and numerous physician practices and clinics in eastern Pennsylvania, says it has been hit with an attack → Read More
HHS Will Seek HIPAA Changes for Reproductive Health Data
Federal regulators are working on proposed rule to modify HIPAA to better safeguard the privacy of reproductive health data. The Biden administration last year → Read More
2 State AGs Slap DNA Testing Lab With HIPAA Fines for Hack
The attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Ohio have slapped a DNA testing lab with HIPAA settlements totaling $400,000 in the wake of a 2021 hack of a legacy → Read More
2022 Cyberattack Has Cost CommonSpirit $150 Million So Far
A ransomware incident last fall that disrupted some of hospital chain CommonSpirit's operations for at least a month has cost the organization $150 million in lost → Read More
Feds Urge Health Sector Entities to Guard Against DDoS
Federal authorities are urging healthcare sector entities to take steps to protect their web applications, connected devices and other critical systems against → Read More
6 Networks Named in Nationwide Health Data Exchange Effort
Federal regulators said true health data interoperability is on its way for hundreds of millions of American patients now that six tech providers have committed to → Read More
Overcoming Identity and Access Challenges in Healthcare
Before healthcare entities can promise advanced identity and access management technologies and practices, their IAM programs need to address important → Read More
California Medical Group's Ransomware Breach Affects 3.3M
Regal Medical Group, one of the largest medical groups in Southern California, has reported that a December ransomware incident involving data exfiltration has → Read More
Ontario Hospital Among Latest Healthcare Cyberattack Victims
An Ontario hospital says it is operating under "Code Grey" as it deals with a cybersecurity incident that occurred over the weekend. Meanwhile, hospitals → Read More
Mergers and Acquisitions in Healthcare: The Security Risks
During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector slumped, but they now appear to be slowly rebounding. What does → Read More