Cybersecurity Updates

Was Your Data Leaked In The 2024 National Public Data Breach? In September 2024, National Public Data confirmed a massive data breach that has exposed the personal information of millions of individuals. This breach includes sensitive details like names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and even Social Security numbers. Up to 2.9 billion people […]

The CrowdStrike Outage: What Medical Practices Can Learn to Prevent IT Crises On July 19, 2024, a major IT disruption impacted millions of Windows devices, including those used in hospitals and medical practices. This caused significant disruptions: from canceled medical procedures to delayed patient care. Thankfully, it wasn’t a cyber-attack, but a software update gone

10 Warning Signs Of Medical Fraud And How To Protect Yourself Health insurance is designed to provide access to necessary treatments, preventive services and emergency care to individuals and families in need, and, apparently, now it’s also used to hand out paydays to scammers. In February of this year, Change Healthcare fell victim to a

The Urgency of Strong Cybersecurity for Medical Practices If the software your medical practice uses to manage patient records and process billing suddenly went down with no clear timeline for restoration, how would you cope? This nightmare scenario became reality for over 15,000 car dealerships in the U.S. and Canada when CDK Global, a major

Cybersecurity Crisis: Protecting Medical Practices in Bloomington-Normal In recent months, the alarming cybersecurity breach at Change Healthcare, a healthcare payment-processing company under UnitedHealth Group, has highlighted a chilling reality: cyberthreats can lurk undetected within our networks, ready to unleash chaos at a moment’s notice. The breach, executed by the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat hacker group, involved the