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PHOTO: TAYLOR WEIDMAN/BLOOMBERG
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Hack at debt collector breaches patient data. Two more medical systems are notifying patients that their health, personal and possibly financial information was stolen in a cyberattack nearly one year ago at collections company Nationwide Recovery Services. At least a dozen hospitals and healthcare providers have been affected. (HIPAA Journal)
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Rome, Ga.-based Harbin Clinic disclosed to the U.S. Department of Health of Human Services that 176,149 people were affected by the July 2024 incident at NRS. Cleveland, Tenn.-based NRS told Harbin about the incident in February.
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UChicago Medicine Medical Group in Illinois said it terminated its business with NRS after the debt collector notified it in April that its patient data was breached last year.
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Seattle cancer center to pay $11.5 million to settle breach suit. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, which is associated with the University of Washington, also agreed to spend $13.5 million to improve data security. Patients sued the center over a 2023 cyberattack in which hackers stole data and later tried to extort payments via email from at least 300 individual patients. (Healthcare Info Security)
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More than 364,000 people had their personal details exposed, data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions disclosed. The company's GitHub account was compromised in a cyberattack on Christmas day 2024. Names and contact data, as well as Social Security and driver's license numbers, are at risk. (TechCrunch)
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Cyber business: Identity-security startup Cerby, based in San Francisco, raised $40 million in a Series B round led by investment-management firm DTCP.
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