A federal judge has dismissed several claims but has given the green light for plaintiffs to move forward with other allegations in a proposed class action filed against electronic health records vendor NextGen in the aftermath of a 2023 ransomware attack that affected about 1 million 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.
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.
Ransomware remains a major threat to energy, oil/gas and utilities organizations of all sizes around the globe. Our 2024 state of ransomware report reveals that the median recovery costs for two critical infrastructure sectors - energy and water - quadrupled to $3 million over the past year.
Welcome to "Cyber Fail," where our experts uncover fails so we can all strengthen our defenses. Today, we take on the looming menace of zombie APIs, the terrors of election dysfunction and the scary legacy of government-backed spyware and its impact on privacy rights.
The U.K.'s data watchdog on Wednesday reprimanded London's Hackney Council over its failure to protect the data of nearly 280,000 town residents from a ransomware hack that resulted in attackers leaking sensitive data. The Pysa ransomware group claimed credit for encrypting 440,000 files in 2020.
Healthcare groups should consider several key points about a recent Texas federal court ruling and its impact on the use of online tracker technology on the healthcare websites of HIPAA-regulated organizations, said privacy attorney Iliana Peters of the law firm Polsinelli.
American pharmacy chain giant Rite Aid is warning 2.2 million customers that attackers obtained their personal information after impersonating one of its employees. The ransomware group RansomHub, which first surfaced in February, has claimed credit for the attack.
An apparent hacktivist group known as NullBulge claimed to have released a major data trove of sensitive information from Disney’s third-party digital workplace collaboration platform, Slack, after reportedly targeting the tech giant for its use of artists' work in training advanced AI systems.
To make cybersecurity a business enabler, cybersecurity teams need to focus on opening things up in a secure fashion so that the functionality and productivity of the business can flourish. Hearst's Andres Andreu discusses the areas in which this can be done.
Experts warned in congressional testimony to the Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday that the absence of a comprehensive privacy bill in the United States is hindering economic competition for technology companies and jeopardizing the privacy of the American public.
The theft of terabytes of Snowflake customers' data through credential stuffing hacks highlights how multifactor authentication shouldn't be optional for safeguarding accounts. Experts are calling on providers to build in more robust identity and authentication security features, at no extra cost.
CISOs Shefali Mookencherry and Kenneth Townsend examine the implications of AI for copyright infringement and consent. They discuss the need for clear governance and responsible use of data and the evolving landscape of AI privacy issues in both the healthcare and non-healthcare sectors.
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