HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2022

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2021 Internet Crime Report , which reveals there were at least 649 ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure organizations from June 2021 to December 2021. billion in losses reported in 2020. billion in 2021 – a 28% increase from 2020.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 11, 2023

Healthcare ransomware attacks have at least doubled in the past 5 years, data recovery from backups has decreased, and it is now common for data to be stolen and publicly released following a successful attack, according to a new analysis recently published in the JAMA Health Forum. Out of the 374 confirmed ransomware attacks, only 20.6%

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Cuba ransomware group has increased attacks in the United States, with attacks doubling since December 2021, and ransom payments are also on the rise. According to CISA and the FBI, there are similarities between the infrastructure used by the Cuba ransomware operation and the RomCom RAT and Industrial Spy ransomware actors.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 15, 2022

Multiple ransomware groups have adopted the BazarCall callback phishing technique to gain initial access to victims’ networks, including threat actors that have targeted the healthcare sector. BazarCall was first utilized by the Ryuk ransomware operation in 2020/2021.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 25, 2022

The break-in was discovered on March 4, 2022, with the subsequent investigation confirming on April 22, 2022, that six boxes of paper documents had been stolen from the facility, which included files relating to patients served by SAC Health in 1997 and between 2006 and 2020. Lifespan Services Suffers Ransomware Attack.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 3, 2022

The health insurer Aetna ACE is one of the latest healthcare organizations to announce it has been affected by a ransomware attack on a mailing vendor, which involved the protected health information of 326,278 plan members. The ransomware attack affected OneTouchPoint, which provides printing and mailing services for U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Family Christian Health Center (FCHC) in Illinois has announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack in November 2021 that compromised the protected health information of 31,000 patients. The attackers compromised FCHC’s old dental system which contained the PHI of patients who had received dental services prior to August 31, 2020.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 16, 2023

A Russian national has been arrested in Arizona and charged in connection to LockBit ransomware and other cyberattacks conducted on targets in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa since 2020. LockBit is currently the most widely used ransomware variant and has been used to extort around $91 million from U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

An affiliate of the infamous Netwalker ransomware gang has been sentenced to serve 20 years in jail for his role in ransomware attacks on entities in the United States. A law enforcement investigation into the ransomware attacks conducted by Vachon-Desjardins on U.S. years in jail for a separate drug trafficking case.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 12, 2022

Montana-based Associated Eye Care Providers (AEC) has recently started notifying patients that their private health information was compromised in a data breach at a business associate that was detected in early December 2020. Netgain Technologies experienced a ransomware attack in which files containing sensitive data were stolen.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Comprehensive Health Services Notifies 94,449 Patients About September 2020 Cyberattack. Comprehensive Health Services, a Cape Canaveral, FL-based provider of workforce medical services and subsidiary of Acuity International, has recently announced it was the victim of a cyberattack that was detected on September 30, 2020.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation first emerged in June 2021 and has aggressively targeted the health and public health sector (HPH) and continues to do so. The post Feds Issue Warning to HPH Sector About Aggressive Hive Ransomware Group appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 27, 2023

In March 2023, Atlantic General Hospital notified the Maine Attorney General that it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack in which the protected health information of 30,704 individuals was exposed; however, the ransomware attack was far more extensive than was previously thought and the total has been upwardly revised to 136,981 individuals.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 13, 2023

to resolve charges that the company issued misleading statements about the impact of its 2020 ransomware attack. In May 2020, malicious actors gained access to its self-hosted private cloud environment and used ransomware to encrypt files. According to Blackbaud, approximately 13,000 customers were affected.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 15, 2023

This joint advisory on LockBit is another example of effective collaboration with our partners to provide timely and actionable resources to help all organizations understand and defend against this ransomware activity,” said CISA Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, Eric Goldstein. “As

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2022

If ransomware is not a topic of conversation around any healthcare organization’s boardroom table, directors and senior executives may be exposing the organization (and themselves) to considerable risk. Here’s a guide to ransomware trends for 2022 and steps healthcare leaders can take to help protect their organizations.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 14, 2023

Ransomware attacks can cause healthcare facilities to temporarily close and small healthcare practices have made the decision not to reopen after a ransomware attack, but hospitals and health systems are usually financially resilient enough to remediate the attacks and recover, but not St. Margaret’s Health.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector has been warned about cyberattacks involving Akira ransomware , of which there have been at least 81 since the new ransomware variant was discovered in May 2023. Akira is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that is thought to have ties to the Conti ransomware group.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The indictments of multiple members of the TrickBot/Conti Ransomware groups have recently been unsealed and 11 members of these cybercriminal operations have been sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom. Galochkin was also one of 11 individuals recently sanctioned by the U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 12, 2022

Ransomware Attacks Increased in 2021. Ransomware attacks have continued to occur at elevated levels, with them accounting for 37% of all data security incidents handled by the firm in 2021, compared to 27% in 2020 and there are no signs that attacks will decrease in 2022. Data exfiltration is now the norm in ransomware attacks.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 8, 2022

in 2015 that resulted in the unauthorized accessing of the records of 80 million health plan subscribers, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid an unheard-of ransom of $17,000 in 2016 following a ransomware attack, and the WannaCry exploits affected more than 200,000 systems in 2017.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The SecurityScorecard/DarkOwl report, which examined more than 30,000 healthcare organizations from September 2019 to April 2020, notes that the reliance on telehealth amplifies risk as well. "Patients connect with telehealth providers using web-based applications that include structured and unstructured data. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2021

Seattle-based Providence was forced to learn quickly in spring of 2020, with Washington State one of the early U.S. " And too often, he said, inertia and complacency are "getting organizations compromised by ransomware." "That technical approach, oftentimes, is, 'The board's asking me about ransomware.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has shared information on the Clop (Cl0p) ransomware-as-a-service operation, the affiliates of which are known to conduct attacks on the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector. Clop ransomware was first detected in February 2019 and is the successor to CryptoMix ransomware.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

Mihir Taneja, Arun Kapoor, Maikel Bolos and Sterling-Knight Pharmaceuticals also filed guilty pleas in December 2020, with Taneja, Kapoor and Sterling-Knight agreeing to pay nearly $21 million in restitution and Sterling-Knight forfeiting $6 million. Like Smith, Roix could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. ON THE RECORD.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2023

DoppelPaymer ransomware first appeared in 2019. Since then, the ransomware has been used in dozens of attacks on critical infrastructure organizations and industries, and private companies. The ransomware is based on BitPaymer ransomware, which is part of the Dridex malware family.

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Becker's Health IT

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A ransomware attack against Burlington,Vt.-based based UVM Health Network in 2020 cost the system millions and disrupted patient care at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vyacheslav Penchukov, a Ukrainian national, pleaded guilty to leading the attack.

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In April 2020, overall telehealth use for office visits and outpatient care was 78 times higher than it was in February 2020. Healthcare Cyberattack Statistics According to the FBI, in 2023, 249 cyberattacks (ransomware attacks) in the U.S. From January 2020 through April 2020, cyberattacks on McAfee cloud accounts rose by 630%.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 5, 2022

The average ransom payment in ransomware attacks fell by 34% in Q1, 2022, from an all-time high in Q4, 2021, according to ransomware incident response firm Coveware. The median company size has been falling since Q4, 2020, and is now companies with around 160 employees.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

more breaches were reported last month than in January 2020. Ransomware attack. Ransomware attack. Ransomware attack. Ransomware attack. Ransomware attack. Ransomware is still being extensively used in cyberattacks on healthcare organizations. million records a month. Business Associate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS UnitedHealth Group, Optum's parent company, reported more than $1 billion in net losses during the first quarter – which included impacts from the February 21 Change Healthcare ransomware attack and subsequent payment systems outage. million in 2019.

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Payment Systems Ransomware Medicare Medicare 186

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Dealing with a ransomware attack. "We have just officially recovered from the ransomware attack and we are now meeting with each department's leadership and frontline staff to capture, document and then categorize the information in a playbook should something like this ever happen again," he explained. Speedy teamwork.

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Health IT Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

US Fertility resolved a class action lawsuit following a 2020 ransomware attack and data breach that impacted nearly 900,000 individuals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2021

The findings are based on a survey conducted from October to December 2020 from 17 countries. The recently launched HIMSS Insights Special Edition - APAC digital health trendbarometer report provides readers insights on the state of digital health developments in the APAC region.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 28, 2022

more than in 2020. higher than in 2020. Average cost of a ransomware attack – $4.54 The average cost of a ransomware attack fell slightly by 1.7% Ransomware attacks increased significantly in 2022 and accounted for 11% of all data breaches, up from 7.8% million, which is 9.4% more than in 2021 and 41.6%

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 18, 2022

There was a 45% increase in hacking/IT incidents between 2019 and 2020, and in 2021, 66% of breaches of unsecured electronic protected health information were due to hacking and other IT incidents. ransomware, phishing) and how to respond,” said OCR. Healthcare hacking incidents have been steadily rising for a number of years.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 14, 2023

The group is financially motivated and often engages in data theft for extortion, with or without ransomware. FIN11 often deploys CLOP ransomware in its attacks, although it is unclear exactly how many CLOP ransomware attacks FIN11 has conducted. FIN11 also targeted HPH sector organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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