3 dental cybersecurity incidents over the past month

Here are three cybersecurity incidents in the dental industry that Becker’s has reported on since July 20:

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1. Absolute Dental Services, a dental laboratory, was hit with a data security incident that may have compromised personal or protected health information of patients at dental practices that the lab serves.

2. The personal health information of approximately 765 patients of the University of Buffalo (N.Y.) dental clinic may have been compromised after the school’s third-party billing services provider was hit with a data breach.

3. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, which has served as legal counsel to Delta Dental of California, was hit with a cyberattack.

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