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Medical Breaches Happen Often. Here’s How to Prepare

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Healthcare data breaches are alarmingly common, and they pose an elevated privacy threat due to the value and sensitivity of the personal data involved. Here’s an overview of the problem as well as steps you can take to protect yourself from medical identity theft.

The Privacy Risks Behind At-Home DNA Tests

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700

While at-home DNA testing can help you learn your ancestry or genetic traits, the bankruptcy of 23andme reveals the risks of giving biotech companies your personal data. Here’s an overview of the threats to your privacy and identity, and what to do if you’re a 23andme customer.

Your Mental Health Information May Be for Sale

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:23:00 -0800

Summary: According to new research, data brokers are collecting people’s PII (Personal Identifiable Information) together with sensitive mental-health information from health and wellness apps, and selling it to advertisers and third parties.

What to do if Your Medical Information is Breached

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:36:00 -0700

Medical identity theft is likely more frequent and complicated than you may realize Medical data breaches are on the rise, and with them, medical identity theft and fraud. In fact, healthcare data breaches hit an all-time high in 2021, impacting 45

The High Stakes of Connected Devices and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Privacy

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 08:00:00 -0700

Summary: We’ve been exploring healthcare privacy and all the ways advances in telemedicine will affect healthcare organizations and their customers - both positively and negatively. In today’s post, we’ll take a closer look at how connected devices

Medical Identity Theft in the New Age of Virtual Healthcare

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:59:00 -0700

Summary: Stolen health information is 20 to 50 times more valuable on the black market than financial data. This stolen data is used for medical identity theft, an insidious crime that can lead to devastating consequences for individuals and

Beware the Pickpockets in Healthcare

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 15:30:00 -0800

Why protecting health data and healthcare privacy is more important than ever for healthcare plans and systems Summary: The digital world is full of pickpockets who are after your personal information with one goal in mind: to compromise your

The Risks of Telehealth App Tracking

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:43:00 -0800

Protecting Your Customers in the New World of Virtual Health As custodians of an abundance of private, sensitive data, healthcare companies are prime targets for ransomware attacks and data breaches. And the 2020 pandemic shined a bright spotlight

Shifting Consumer Expectations in the New Age of Virtual Healthcare

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:43:00 -0800

Summary: The pandemic pushed virtual healthcare adoption into overdrive. With consumers embracing all the benefits remote care provides, healthcare businesses must prioritize cybersecurity to protect their customers’ sensitive health data. Over the

How Reviewing Medical EOBs Helps Prevent Medical Identity Theft

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:37:00 -0800

Medical explanation of benefits (EOB) reports are certainly less of a thrill than a Stephan King novel, but if you become a victim of medical ID theft, ignoring them could put you through more excitement than is healthy. Read our tips to make reviewing EOBs practically painless.

IDX™ launches IDX Healthcare and appoints Michael Moore as Vice President of Sales for IDX Healthcare

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:00:00 -0800

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IDX, an industry-leading data privacy and identity theft protection provider, is announcing the launch of their new IDX Healthcare suite of privacy solutions. IDX Healthcare will be the first digital

IDX's CEO Tom Kelly Talks Cybercrime and Health Organizations

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0700

As featured on The Lars Larson Show IDX President and CEO, Tom Kelly, recently joined the Lars Larson Show to discuss the topic of his recent op-ed for Security Magazine, “Health agencies are gathering data to combat COVID-19: Here’s why that might

IDX's CEO Tom Kelly Discuss How Health Agencies are Gathering Consumer Data in Security Magazine

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0700

The coronavirus pandemic continues to pose a serious health challenge to our nation. And to track and fight COVID-19, health providers and the government are gathering more health data than ever before – and this increased data collection presents

Assessing Data Breach Severity: Ransomware Attack at a Hospital

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:59:00 -0700

Ransomware attacks have rapidly become associated with healthcare data breaches—and for good reason. According to Solutionary’s Security Engineering Research Team Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report for the second quarter of 2016, 88 percent of all detected ransomware occurred among the firm’s healthcare clients.

Are You A Target for a Data Breach? Which Industry Has Suffered the Most in 2016?

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:21:00 -0700

Each year, National Cyber Security Awareness Month calls attention to the issue of cyber security. We also want to raise awareness about the scope of today’s cyber-security issues by discussing these four issues:

Ransomware in Healthcare: Where the Stakes Are Higher

Wed, 18 May 2016 09:06:00 -0700

“Good day, isn’t it?”

This greeting taken from a ransomware screenshot is audacious.

For healthcare organizations who are struggling with basic security, much less advanced threats like ransomware, the greeting is chilling.

Identity Thieves Prey on the Deceased: 7 Steps to Protect Families Against “Ghosting”

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:28:00 -0800

Here are two statistics that should give pause to individuals and organizations alike: each year, approximately 2.6 million Americans die. And each year, identity thieves steal the personal information from approximately 2.5 million deceased Americans. According to Identity Theft Resource Center, identity thieves find the deceased’s personal information from hospitals, funeral homes, and obituaries.

Medical Device Protection: 13 Tips

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:27:00 -0800

Can somebody really hack into your Fitbit, pacemaker or infusion pump? Yes, that's possible. And hackers may even hold health data for ransom.

Medical Data Everywhere: Danger in the Cloud

Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:16:00 -0800

Chances are that your healthcare organization has already chosen to use cloud computing as part of its IT infrastructure, and with good reason: cloud computing is a cost-effective way to grow IT capacity, and software services available through the cloud can make your workforce more productive. And your IT team has worked with your service providers to protect your data in the cloud. All good, right? But here’s the rub: a new study from Skyhigh Networks shows that the average healthcare organization is using over 10 times more cloud services than the IT organization knows about. Think about that: more than 9 out of 10 services used in the course of business are unmonitored and unsecured. That amounts to one huge security hole, and cybercriminals are jumping in to exploit it.

Medical Identity Theft: How Healthcare Data Breaches Turn Patients into Victims

Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:32:00 -0700

Passengers on the London Underground are told to “mind the gap,” a warning to watch for the space between the train door and station platform. Healthcare organizations need to mind their own privacy and security gaps when it comes to protecting sensitive medical information.