2021 Ransomware US Department of Health and Human Services 
Healthcare It News
MAY 2, 2024
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. His testimony offered a glimpse into the technical side of the attack and, and UHG's incident response.
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Republic of Korea’s Defense Security Agency and National Intelligence Service warning of state-sponsored North Korean (DPRK) ransomware attacks on U.S.
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HIPAA Journal
MARCH 22, 2022
From March 1, 2021, to February 28, 2022, there have been 723 reported data breaches of 500 or more records. The largest breach of the month was reported by Morley Companies, which was a hacking incident that resulted in the exposure and possible theft of the protected health information of 521,046 members of its health plan.
MRO Compliance
MAY 18, 2022
In 2021 , more than 550 organizations reported healthcare data breaches to HHS, impacting more than 40 million individuals, with a single data breach estimated to cost $9 million. A small breach can be a simple release of information (ROI) process error involving a patient’s protected health information (PHI). Social media.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 31, 2023
The burden will fall to software developers and service providers, thus elevating the data-centric approach to cybersecurity. But unfortunately that is just not the case. Instead with how deeply personal and important the information and data that we hold is in the world of healthcare, we need to be prepared for the absolute worst.
Total HIPAA
JUNE 21, 2022
While much of the anti-malware technology we have to protect us from hackers has become increasingly more sophisticated, so have attackers’ methods. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), incidents of hacking affecting 500 people or more increased by 45% from 2019 to 2020. According to the U.S.
MedTrainer
JULY 21, 2022
These hackers are costing health organizations millions of dollars and threatening the safety of patients. In January of 2018, Hancock Health of Indiana experienced a serious ransomware attack that forced their entire network to shut down. Another complication that healthcare organizations face is the US HHS itself.
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