WASHINGTON — September 17, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced a settlement with Ambry Genetics Corporation (Ambry) concerning potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule. Ambry, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, is a covered entity...

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Bill Toulas reports: A phishing-as-a-service framework called BigBear 2.0 has been used to bypass multi-factor authentication at 258 organizations and steal more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials. Researchers at cybersecurity company CloudSEK gained administrator access to the control panel and found that the service managed 42 VPS nodes, all configured to target Microsoft 365 as...

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Will Murray reports: Another medical clinic has revealed it has been targeted by hackers, less than a week after Partnered Health announced a major data breach. GO2 Health in Everton Park, in Brisbane’s north, said the clinic’s main email mailbox was accessed in April after a phishing attack. It wasn’t until almost three months later...

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WDTV reports: Monongalia County General Hospital Company, known as Mon General, announced it was recently the victim of a phishing attack that may have compromised the personal and medical information of some patients. Hospital officials say the incident was discovered on May 6, when they identified that a phishing attack had targeted a small number...

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Bob Chiarito reports: Six weeks after a cyberattack shut down the campus for two days, several Evanston Township High School students received phishing emails this week. The emails offered students part-time jobs paying $550 for two to three hours of work, three times a week and came from a student’s ETHS email account. The emails were signed by “Human Resource”...

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