Before The Breach

Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health said some of its patients were affected by a cybersecurity incident involving Oracle Health, the EHR vendor formerly known as Cerner. Oracle Health notified LifeBridge in March that an unauthorized third party had gained access to its systems as early as Jan. 22 and obtained certain data, LifeBridge said in an Oct. 16 news release. The breach affected  multiple healthcare organizations that use Oracle Health’s platform.

The Justice Department’s push to encourage whistleblowers to raise cybersecurity fraud claims against US contractors has produced settlements that provide a window into alleged lapses, vulnerabilities, and shortcomings amongst governmental partners of all stripes. Georgia Institute of Technology last month became the latest federal funds recipient to resolve  a False Claims Act suit alleging inadequate performance of cybersecurity services in federal contracts. DOJ has announ

The dome of the Montana Capitol, with the statue of Mike and Maureen Mansfield in the lower center (By Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan). The Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance is warning nearly a half-million Montana customers of Montana Blue Cross-Blue Shield that their private data, including financial information, health information, or personal information may be at risk following a major data breach, and it has launched an investigation that could aff

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — Ortho Rhode Island  has reached a $2.9 million class action settlement with patients whose information was compromised in a cyberattack last year . Target 12 reported back in November 2024 that a phone and computer system outage the previous September was actually a hack that could have exposed the names, addresses, billing and health insurance information, and other medical information of “a significant percentage” of Ortho RI’s patients.

HELENA — The office of Montana State Auditor James Brown, the state's commissioner of securities and insurance, has launched an investigation into Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana (BCBSMT) following a major data breach. According to the Auditor’s Office, the breach puts the personal and medical information of up to 462,000 Montana customers at risk.

A firm providing emergency medical services has been fined £100,000 after a serious data breach exposed sensitive patient information. Thousands of emails, some containing confidential health data, were stolen from the Medical Specialist Group (MSG) in Guernsey and later used in phishing campaigns targeting patients, said the Office of the Data Protection Authority (ODPA) in a statement .