Cyber Security and Compliance News Direct Difference, Inc January 2020
January 2020
Banner Health agrees to $6 million settlement over 2016...
Banner Health has agreed to pay up to $6 million to victims of a massive data breach the Arizona health system experienced in 2016, according to court documents filed last week. The plaintiffs in the case filed the motion for preliminary approval ...
Best Buy sees growth in health care technology for elderly
NEW YORK (AP) - The nation's largest consumer electronics chain, known for selling TV sets, cellphones and laptops, is looking to health care as a big source of its future growth. Best Buy Co.
Kaiser says data breach exposed information on nearly...
Kaiser Permanente said Thursday that a data breach had left personal information on 990 Sacramento-area patients exposed to an unknown and unauthorized individual for about 13 hours. "The exposure was identified by an IT security process and...
HHS cybersecurity leader describes the active threats on ...
BOSTON - At the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum on Monday morning, Greg Singleton, director of the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, described how HC3 sees the current threat...
For less than $200, attackers were able to infect thousands of systems, stealing user credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and web histories, an analysis finds. A cybercrime campaign that starts with phishing, uses Bit.ly and Pastebin to pass...
Goshen Health sends notification of data security incident
GOSHEN - Goshen Health is addressing a security incident that involved the personal information of some of its patients, the health care network has announced. Goshen Health, in a release issued Monday night, said it launched an internal...
