Change Healthcare officials projected that the company's massive February cyberattack affected one-third of the American population. So why did the IT services provider's HIPAA breach report to federal regulators lowball the initial estimate, saying the cyberattack only affected 500 people?
Millions of Americans will soon receive a breach notification letter from Change Healthcare, which said on Monday that it has started the process of notifying victims of the massive cyberattack and data theft incident first detected more than five months ago.
Health benefits administrator HealthEquity, which earlier this month reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a hacking incident involving the compromised credentials of a vendor, has now told state regulators that the breach affected the information of 4.3 million individuals.
U.S. hospital chain Ascension has filed a placeholder breach report to federal regulators saying its May 8 ransomware attack affected at least 500 individuals. Meanwhile, the waiting game continues for Change Healthcare's official data breach report and individual notifications.
Software vendor MCG Health has agreed to pay $8.8 million to settle a consolidated proposed federal class action lawsuit involving a 2020 hacking incident. The suit claims the company took two years to identify and report a data theft that affected about 1.1 million people.
Ransomware group Daixin is threatening to leak sensitive medical information of 10 million patients on the dark web. The group claims to have stolen the data in an attack on Louisiana-based Acadian Ambulance - the latest in a string of incidents targeting emergency medical services.
This week, North Korean hackers targeted macOS users, Bassett Furniture suffered a ransomware attack, Interpol arrested 300 and seized $3 million, new details emerged about Designed Receivable Solutions, Repligen reported a cyber incident, and MarineMax reported a data breach.
In its initial legislative agenda, the United Kingdom's newly elected Labour government has introduced a new cybersecurity bill in a bid to address rising cyberthreats to the country. The bill seeks to reduce the severity of cyberattacks on essential services and improve cybersecurity preparedness.
Hacks and vendor incidents continue to dominate major health data breach trends in 2024, but a handful of large incidents involving "unauthorized access or disclosure" also top the list of major health data breaches reported to federal regulators so far this year. How are trends shifting?
Regulators in several states are warning consumers to stay vigilant against identity theft and fraud crimes as millions of patients across America await notification from Change Healthcare to learn whether they were affected by a massive February ransomware attack and data breach.
A Pennsylvania-based debt collector originally told regulators in April that a hacker compromised the personal identifiable information of 1.9 million people. Now the company says the data breach affected more than 4 million people and included patient medical information.
A Chicago pediatrics hospital is notifying nearly 800,000 people that their information was compromised in a ransomware attack earlier this year. Cybercrime group Rhysida had demanded a $3.4 million ransom for data it claims to have stolen in the incident. The hospital said it did not pay.
Two weeks ago, Change Healthcare began notifying thousands of medical practices about a massive data breach affecting millions of patients. The healthcare software firm says it will handle breach notifications, but industry groups want to ensure the government will go along with that plan.
Infosys McCamish Systems, an insurance software product and services vendor, is notifying nearly 6.1 million people of a 2023 ransomware incident that potentially comprised their sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, medical treatment, and financial and biometric information.
Microsoft is alerting its customers whose data may have been accessed by Russian state hackers following a January attack that compromised the emails of company executives. Microsoft also shared a link to a custom-built secure system that customers can use to review their stolen data.
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