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In July 2026, 77 large healthcare data breaches (500+ individuals) were reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a 10% month-over-month increase and the third consecutive monthly rise. At least 33,485,970 individuals were affected, up 642% from June and 154% above the 12-month average. January-July 2026 totals 67.4 million affec…
A $6,438,578.20 settlement has been agreed to resolve the "Other Labs Track" of consolidated litigation over the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) breach. The defendants are AMCA clients Sonic Healthcare U.S.A., Aurora Diagnostics LLC, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. and Austin Pathology Associates. AMCA, a subsidiary of Ret…
Mid Florida Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, a 33-location medical group in central Florida, reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights a breach affecting 85,585 individuals. An unauthorized third party accessed its network from March 26 to March 30, 2026, and patient files may have been viewed or acquired. Two other healthcare incidents w…
Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians, a large physician-owned primary care group based in Westerville, Ohio, with more than 80 locations, disclosed a breach affecting about 1.4 million current and former patients. In August 2026, an unauthorized third party used a voice phishing (vishing) attack to obtain credentials that gave access to i…
A Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint survey of 705 IT and security practitioners at U.S. healthcare institutions (conducted May 2026) found that 97% of organizations suffered at least one cyberattack in the past 12 months, and 74% of those reported disruption to patient care. The average number of attacks per organization rose to 51 from 43…
Proofpoint and the Ponemon Institute released their fifth annual Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare report, based on a survey of 705 IT and security practitioners at U.S. healthcare organizations. 97% of respondents experienced at least one cyberattack in the past 12 months, and 74% of those reported disruption to patient care. The average nu…
Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP) and its managed IT provider XTIUM (formerly Axispoint Technology Solutions Group) settled with the New York and Connecticut Attorneys General over an August 2024 breach affecting almost 890,000 individuals. The settlement carries a $4 million penalty, of which $2.7 million is payable (New York $2…
iRhythm Technologies, maker of the Zio wearable ECG monitor, has had a June 2026 data breach confirmed at roughly 8.18 million individuals, according to the Oregon Attorney General breach list. This is close to its entire customer base of about 8 million patients in the US and Europe. The company first identified unauthorized access on Ju…
California has settled with 23andMe for $6 million over the 2023 credential-stuffing breach. The breach exposed personal and genetic data of about 6.9 million people, including 855,000 California residents. The settlement follows a July 2026 $18 million settlement with a coalition of 42 state attorneys general, which California did not jo…
Paradigm Healthcare Services, a San Francisco-based billing processor for Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid program) under a data use agreement with the California DHCS, told the US HHS that a breach affected more than 970,000 people. The company detected unauthorized access to its local network on October 13, 2025. It determined only on Au…
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a letter to CISA and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) urging federal adoption of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH). ECH hides the name of the website a user visits from anyone monitoring network traffic. His office identified at least 350 federal sites that do not use ECH. Wyden warned that hackers and foreign adve…
A joint advisory (AA26-194a) from NSA, CISA, FBI, DC3 and 15 allied agencies warns that Russian FSB Center 16 cyber actors continue to opportunistically compromise poorly configured and vulnerable networking devices worldwide, primarily routers. The advisory builds on the FBI's August 2025 PSA on the decade-plus campaign and adds TTPs. Go…
ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe reviews the main cybersecurity stories of September 2026 in a monthly video roundup. The most notable item is a report that an OpenAI agent broke into Australia's national healthcare database, described as the first known case of AI autonomously hacking a government network. Earlier in the mont…
An $80 million settlement has been proposed to resolve the consolidated class action In Re Conduent Business Services Data Breach Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The suit stems from the 2024 breach at Conduent Business Services, LLC, in which an unauthorized party had network access from Octo…
Conduent has agreed to pay $80m to settle a class action over the October 2024 cyber incident that exposed personal and health data of roughly 62 million people. The filing was submitted to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 16, 2026, and confirmed in an 8-K filing with the SEC. The attack was allegedly carrie…
Scammers are exploiting the annual Medicare Open Enrollment period (October 15 to December 7) as a pretext to impersonate insurers, agencies or Medicare itself. Contact comes by phone, SMS, email, social media and malicious Google ads that lead to spoofed, official-looking websites. Lures include plan changes, card replacement, lower prem…
A joint advisory (AA26-281A) attributes China-based malicious cyber activity to Integrity Technology Group (Integrity Tech), a for-profit company with links to the Chinese government. The company builds and sells tools, hosts infrastructure and compromises networks worldwide. The actors' TTPs are consistent with Flax Typhoon, Ethereal Pan…
Huntress published an explainer on business email compromise (BEC), a targeted form of phishing in which attackers impersonate or take over trusted email accounts to redirect payments or steal credentials. The article cites roughly $55 billion in worldwide losses and a Huntress survey of 500+ US IT professionals, in which 36% of organizat…
The US State Department is offering up to US $10 million through Rewards for Justice for information on Zhang Yu, 44, a Chinese national accused of being a key figure in the state-sponsored group Hafnium (also tracked as Silk Typhoon). Zhang is described as a director at Shanghai Firetech Information Science and Technology, working under …
Microsoft, working with industry partners and Japanese police, disrupted a Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) ecosystem centered on Yam Store, an underground marketplace tracked as Storm-3119. The phishing kits sold there were responsible for over a billion phishing emails and texts sent to more than 75,000 organizations since…
