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…
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…
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…