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Third-party contractor compromise exposed health information and insurance billing passwords
Josephine Wolff on Why Healthcare Must Scrutinize Cyber and AI CoverageHealthcare organizations face growing pressure to reassess cyber insurance policies as cyberattacks disrupt patient care and AI tools introduce new liability risks. Josephine Wolff of Tufts University discusses how exclusions, compliance demands and AI-related uncertainty shape insurance decisions.
An On Demand video from ID DatawebScattered Spider continues to evolve, and organizations across financial services, healthcare, insurance, telecommunications, and other sectors are strengthening defenses against increasingly sophisticated identity-driven threats.
HHS OCR Breach Investigators Again Find All-Too-Common Risk Analysis FailuresFaulty or non-existent security risk analyses cost a medical imaging provider, a women's healthcare group, a health plan and a third-party insurance administrator a collective $1.7 million in fines after federal regulators concluded they didn't do enough to prevent ransomware attacks.
HHS OCR Breach Investigators Again Find All-Too-Common Risk Analysis FailuresFaulty or non-existent security risk analyses cost a medical imaging provider, a women's healthcare group, a health plan and a third-party insurance administrator a collective $1.7 million in fines after federal regulators concluded they didn't do enough to prevent ransomware attacks.
House Democrats Are the Latest to Raise Data Collection Privacy, Security AlarmsA plan by the U.S. federal agency that oversees federal benefits that would require insurers to hand over the identifiable health data of civil servants received pushback from House of Representatives Democrats who said it throws up privacy and security risks.
State: Medicare Enrollee Data Sent to Unlicensed Firms in India, PhilippinesState insurance regulators have suspended a Florida third-party health administrator firm for unlawfully offshoring sensitive claims and other data of more than 23,000 Florida Medicare Advantage enrollees to several unlicensed companies in India and the Philippines.
Compromise Affects Healthcare Clients of Co.'s Revenue Cycle Management ServicesBilling services vendor Trizetto Provider Solutions is notifying 3.4 million individuals of a hacking incident discovered in October 2025 that investigators have now determined started nearly a year earlier, when threat actors accessed the company's healthcare clients' insurance related data.
Parent company Cognizant hit with multiple lawsuits Thousands more Oregonians will soon receive data breach letters in the continued fallout from the TriZetto data breach, in which someone hacked the insurance verification provider and gained access to its healthcare provider customers across multiple US states.…
National Accident Health Says Breach Exposed Medical Info of 181,000 PeopleA Maine-based third-party administrator that handles healthcare claims involving day care centers, youth sports and NCAA athlete accidents is notifying more than 181,000 individuals that their medical information and personal identifiers may have been accessed or stolen in a hacking incident.
Wanna know a secret? Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.…
Crooks spoof US insurers, threaten bogus extradition to pry loose personal data and cash Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI warns.…
Senate HELP Committee Leaders Ask Insurer: What Went Wrong in the Cyberattack?A U.S. Senate committee is demanding details from insurance giant Aflac about the company's recent cyberattack that compromised the personal and health information of a yet undisclosed number of Americans. Senators last year gave the same scrutiny to the Change Healthcare mega-breach.
Farmers' HIPAA Breach Affects 1.1 Million; Aflac Is Still Counting VictimsTwo major U.S.-based insurers - Farmers Insurance and Aflac Inc. - have each reported to regulators data breaches involving two recent separate cyberattacks. The breaches follow a spring and summer spree of data exfiltration incidents that hit multiple large players in the insurance sector.
Security budgets are lowest in healthcare, professional and business services, retail, and hospitality, but budget growth remained above 5% in financial services, insurance, and tech.
What Makes Timely and Accurate Breach Reporting So Difficult for Some Organizations?An Illinois-based brokerage firm that works with employers, businesses and consumers to obtain various types of insurance coverage is notifying nearly 156,000 people that their protected health information was compromised in a data theft hack that occurred more than a year ago. Why the delay?
Taking advantage of the ridiculously complex US healthcare billing system Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI.…
Frustrations Over Preauthorization Denials Have Led to 'Violence in Streets'A dozen health insurance giants that provide coverage for about 80% of Americans with Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans have agreed to work the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to voluntarily streamline and improve their preauthorization processes.
On Friday, American insurance giant Aflac disclosed that its systems were breached in a broader campaign targeting insurance companies across the United States by attackers who may have stolen personal and health information. [...]
The group has previously threatened to SWAT cancer patients and leaked pre-op plastic surgery photos An extortion gang claims to have breached Freedman HealthCare, a data and analytics firm whose customers include state agencies, health providers, and insurance companies, and is threatening to dump tens of thousands of sensitive files early Tuesday morning.…