Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Landmark Admin Compromise Affects More Than a Dozen Insurance and Annuity CarriersLandmark Admin, a third-party vendor that provides administrative services to life insurance and annuity companies, said 1.6 million people are potentially affected by 2024 ransomware and data exfiltration incidents that compromised a wide range of personal, financial and health information.

Texas Incident is Largest Breach Reported by a Health Plan So Far in 2025A Texas-based insurance firm is notifying more than 335,500 people of a December hack involving their sensitive personal and health information. The breach affects many - but not all - of the company's policyholders, agents and insurance carrier partners in multiple states.

Lawsuit Alleges Insurer Used AI Tool in Denying Patients Medically Necessary CareA proposed class action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group that claims the company's insurance unit UnitedHealthCare used of artificial intelligence tools to deny Medicare Advantage claims for medically necessary care has the green light to proceed from a federal judge

Cost of Attack Has Reached $3.1 Billion for Parent Company UnitedHealth GroupOne of the biggest data breaches of 2024 is even worse than previously reported, as the tally of Change Healthcare breach victims has now reached 190 million individuals, and costs tied to the attack $3.1 billion, according to its owner, U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group.

Provision Emphasizes Existing Medicare Regs for Equitable Access to Health ServicesThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued proposed "guardrails" to help ensure that the use of artificial intelligence for Medicare Advantage insurance plans does not result in inequitable access to healthcare-related services. The proposed rule will go into effect in 2026.

Provision Emphasizes Existing Medicare Regs for Equitable Access to Health ServicesThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued proposed "guard rails" to help ensure that the use of artificial intelligence for Medicare Advantage insurance plans does not result in inequitable access to healthcare-related services. The proposed rule will go into effect in 2026.

Young Consulting Says Health Data Exposed; Ransomware Group Leaked Stolen DataYoung Consulting, which develops software for the stop-loss insurance market, is notifying 1 million individuals that their personal information was stolen earlier this year in a hack attack. The BlackSuit ransomware group, a rebrand of Royal, subsequently claimed credit and leaked stolen data.

Australian Insurer Expects Years of Litigation Related to 2022 HackAustralia's largest provider of private health insurance says it expects to spend a total of AU$126 million, or $84.78 million, over a three-year period to upgrade its IT security. A Russia-based cybercriminal group hacked Medibank in October 2022.