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Nearly four in five companies (79%) were hit by a breach in the last year, according to Balabit. Their research also revealed that 68% businesses expect to be impacted by further breaches this...
Banner Health Follows Nuance, Merck in Reporting Details About the ImpactRecent financial reports from three healthcare sector organizations that suffered cyberattacks demonstrate how costly data...
Malware, Mailing Errors and More Reported on the 'Wall of Shame'Large breaches involving hackers continue to plague the healthcare sector this year, but incidents involving lower-tech issues,...
In 2017 the number of individuals affected by breaches within the healthcare sector reached a four-year low. However, 71 percentof breaches in 2017 were due to hacking and IT incidents, and a...
Organizations Scramble After 80 Million Potentially Breached Records SurfaceAn analysis of a massive 8.8 GB trove of files containing usernames and plaintext passwords suggests hundreds of...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that all customers can now freely check whether their S3 buckets are leaking stored data. “Previously available only to Business and Enterprise support...
An estimated 16 million patient records were stolen in the United States in 2016, and last summer the British health system was crippled by a ransomware attack. While we know these events are on...
Cyber Incidents Grow, But Low-Tech Breaches Still a ChallengeA look at some of the United Kingdom's recent health data breach statistics shows some interesting similarities to the U.S., despite...
Once again, the record has been broken for both the most breaches and the most data compromised in a year. There were 5,207 breaches recorded last year, surpassing 2015’s previous high mark by...
Fresenius Medical Care North America Agrees to HIPAA SettlementIn one of the largest HIPAA settlements ever, federal regulators have signed a $3.5 million settlement with a Massachusetts-based...