HIPAA Pulse
Healthcare breaches cost $9.8 million on average — the highest of any industry. Attacks on independent providers have increased 6x since 2021. HIPAA Pulse tracks every reported breach as it happens, with editorial analysis focused on what independent practices need to know and do. Every incident below includes a breakdown of what happened, what data was exposed, and how Patient Protect's active breach prevention could have helped.
This Week
Nayax is a global fintech company headquartered in Israel that provides cashless payment and management solutions for unattended retail and self-service machines. The firm is publicly traded on both the Tel Aviv and Nasdaq stock exchanges. This month, Nayax submitted a Form 6-K to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The form contained an "Explanatory Statement:"... Source
Mikeie Honda Reiland reports: A suite of recent class action lawsuits in state and federal courts seeks to hold large healthcare corporations accountable for exposing or leaking patients’ personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI). On June 11 in Davidson County Circuit Court, three Jane Does filed suit against CareNow, which operates more... Source
KIRO7 reports: The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is issuing a notice of a massive data breach that happened in March, potentially compromising the personal data of around 8,600 people. An internal investigation revealed that a former DSHS employee accessed the data without authorization. Some of the data the employee improperly potentially... Source
Chase Jordan reports an update in the litigation stemming from a 2024 breach by Hunters International. This case has raised a number of issues about standing and negligence and has been up and down in the courts, with plaintiffs seeming to fare better in state court: A class-action lawsuit over a 2024 data breach of Bojangles employee... Source
Securonix says the sophisticated framework abuses compromised websites, Blogspot, PowerShell, and fileless techniques to evade detection and deploy the PureLog information stealer. The post Blogspot-Hosted Payloads Delivered in 'Veil#Drop' Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Carrie Tait reports: A retired lawyer is suing Alberta, its Chief Electoral Officer and two organizations that support secession for their respective roles in an alleged data breach affecting 2.9 million residents in the province. Clint Docken, a former class-action lawyer, last week filed a sweeping lawsuit stemming from allegations the Centurion Project unlawfully obtained... Source
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Connor Jones reports: AdaptHealth says attackers used social engineering to breach its systems and steal sensitive patient data, including passwords associated with insurance billing. The medical equipment company disclosed the attack to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday, noting that attackers accessed internal patient management systems, document storage platforms, and external electronic health record system... Source
Erwin Wong reports: Shun Hing Group has confirmed that its computer systems were compromised by hackers in March, resulting in a significant data breach affecting customers and staff. Founded in 1953 by the late Dr William Mong, Shun Hing Group has grown into a leading and diversified Hong Kong conglomerate, best known as the sole... Source
Medical technology giant Medtronic is notifying more than 3.8 million individuals that their personal and medical information was compromised in a recent data breach. The incident occurred in April 2026, when the infamous extortion group ShinyHunters accessed the company’s corporate IT systems. Medtronic confirmed the attack in late April, noting that its products and manufacturing [...] The post Medtronic Data Breach Impacts 3.8 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Healthcare device firm Medtronic is notifying affected customers about a data breach that exposed their personal data to an unauthorized third party. [...]
Sergiu Gatlan reports: American insurance giant Aflac has disclosed a new data breach after attackers breached its Japan subsidiary's systems and stole personal and bank account information. Aflac (short for American Family Life Assurance Company) is a Fortune 500 company and the largest supplemental insurance provider in the United States, serving millions of customers in... Source
Fox Rothschild is a top-100 law firm whose articles and resources have been cited on DataBreaches.net and PogoWasRight.org dozens of times over the years. This time, however, they are the subject of a post because they were victims of a data breach by a well-known group that targets law firms. Introduction The group called Silent... Source
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