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While your medical practice continues to focus on treating patients during the pandemic, cyber criminals are trying to take advantage of this hectic time to access your computers.
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As many healthcare organizations seek to have their billing and coding staffs work remotely, active attempts to compromise their organization’s data, via phishing and malware, are being perpetrated by foreign actors. While many organizations seek to keep some continuity by allowing their team to continue performing services from home, they have left themselves open to severe security risks. Google has announced that in the past month, these malicious attacks have dramatically increased.
Is your organization adequately prepared from a security perspective to have your coders continue working remotely? If you have not validated that your existing security protocols are up to legal and best practices standards, then perhaps now is the time to rethink your current coding setup.
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Google warns of government-backed cyber groups targeting healthcare organizations | TheHill
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Here’s how to fight back. Most of us are concerned about being personally attacked by cybercriminals, and we must have that same increased awareness within our medical practices. Cybercriminals consider medical practices ripe for the picking. Security policies and continuous education work like pesticides. Are you protected from a HIPAA breach? The Name of the […]
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MaineGeneral Health recently announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack resulting in a data breach that affected an unknown number of patients and employees.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) notified MaineGeneral November 13, 2015, that it had detected data belonging to the organization on an external website. The website was not accessible to the public. MaineGeneral launched an investigation in cooperation with the FBI to determine the cause, source, and extent of the data breach. MaineGeneral announced the incident December 8, 2015.
Some patients referred by a treating physician to MaineGeneral for radiology services since June 2009 were affected by the breach. Compromised patient data includes:
Data for some employees and prospective donors was also detected on the external website, including names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, or credit/financial information have not been found among the affected data. Although no incidents of identity theft have been reported as a result of the breach and no financial information appears to have been accessed, MaineGeneral is offering affected individuals one year of credit and identity monitoring services.