Recent HIPAA News

Compliancy Group has certified NeuronUP’s good faith effort to achieve HIPAA compliance and satisfactorily fulfilled the specifications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s regulations. NeuronUP is a 3-in-1 tool created to assist neurorehabilitation [...]

Universal Health Services has affirmed that its 250 hospitals in the USA are operational and hoping to catch a person thought to be behind the ransomware attack that shut down its systems for three weeks. [...]

eResearchTechnology in Philadelphia is a company marketing software for clinical trials, for instance, the clinical trials relating to Covid-19 vaccines. The company experienced a ransomware attack last September 20, 2020 that affected several clients, including [...]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint alert about advanced persistent hackers stringing exploits for a number of vulnerabilities in cyberattacks directed at federal and [...]

The chiropractor Accents on Health based in Lone Tree, CO encountered a ransomware attack on August 5, 2020 that saw the encryption of information kept on its computer systems. Cybersecurity forensics experts looked into the [...]

Maternal Fetal Associates based in Virginia is a medical group composed of maternal fetal medicine professionals. It recently announced its completion of the Six Stage Implementation Program of Compliancy Group and has received certification as [...]

On September 30, 2020, Blackbaud submitted a Form 8-K with the SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) that gave more details on the ransomware attack encountered by the company in May 2020. Blackbaud stated that [...]

Oaklawn Hospital located in Marshall, MI, has begun informing 26,861 patients regarding a potential compromise of their personal and medical data. It is not clear when the hospital detected the breach, however, the forensic investigation [...]

Health insurer Anthem Inc. based in Indianapolis, IN has settled its multi-state actions filed by state attorneys general in relation to its 2014 78.8 million record data breach. One settlement deal for $39.5 million was [...]

Alameda Health System (AHS) based in Alameda, CA, an inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and wellness services provider around the East Bay area, became aware that an unauthorized individual had briefly gained access to an employee’s email [...]

Universal Health Services (UHS) located in King of Prussia, PA has experienced a big security breach that resulted in the inaccessibility of its IT systems. The health system has got at least 400 healthcare facilities [...]

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Sudden Infant Death Services (SIDS) of Illinois, Inc. has been certified as compliant with the standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Security and Privacy Rules, the Breach Notification Rules, and the [...]

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights received 37 reports of healthcare data breaches involving 500 or more records in August 2020. The number of breaches continued to be rather constant month-over-month, however, breached records in [...]

There are 5 vulnerabilities with low- to medium-severity discovered in the Philips Clinical Collaboration Platform (Vue PACS). An attacker could exploit the vulnerability and influence an authorized user to perform unauthorized activities or disclose data [...]

A recent joint cybersecurity alert published by the Cybersecurity Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that a hacking group connected to the Iranian government was detected exploiting [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the newly released version of its tool for Security Risk Assessment (SRA). The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology [...]

Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA is one of the healthcare companies that lately confirmed the impact of the Blackbaud ransomware attack on its company. The information contained in a backup donor database included [...]

A Federal judge dismissed a potential class-action lawsuit that was filed in June 2019 against UChicago Medicine, the University of Chicago, and Google. The lawsuit was a response to an alleged breach of HIPAA Rules [...]

Compliancy Group has certified MeDLiTE Inc. as HIPAA-compliant after satisfactorily meeting all Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements. MeDLite is a full-service medical billing firm based in Hackensack, NJ. MeDLiTE has been in [...]

The Baton Rouge Clinic located in Louisiana suffered a cyberattack at the beginning of July that made its email and phone system inaccessible and constrained its laboratory and radiology services. The ransomware attack caused systems [...]

The National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM) is being observed this September 2020 for the second time. The whole month, resources are being made accessible to point out the value of discovering, blocking, and reporting [...]

Recently, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the eHealth Initiative & Foundation (eHI) issued a draft of a consumer privacy framework for health data to deal with the loopholes in legal protections for [...]

There is a growing number of healthcare providers that are confirmed to have experienced a data breach as a result of the Blackbaud ransomware attack. Four more healthcare providers sent breach notification reports in the [...]

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has reported the potential exposure of the personal data of persons who donated to Northwestern Memorial HealthCare in the past due to a Blackbaud ransomware attack fairly recently. An unauthorized man or [...]

Paramount Counseling Services (PCS) based in Whitefish Bay, WI, a mental health agency providing counseling and psychotherapy services to outpatients, has proven its compliance with the requirements of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act [...]

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, the American College of Radiology, and the Radiological Society of North America published an advisory with regards to online medical presentations and the possibility of inadvertent exposure of [...]

The Secretary Alex Azar of the HHS has a public health emergency declared in the states of Texas and Louisiana because of Hurricane Laura, and in California because of the continuing wildfires. HIPAA Rules continue [...]

In 2019, Heritage Valley Health System in Beaver, PA filed a case against Nuance Communications in relation to the 2017 NotPetya malware attack. The case was dismissed by a federal judge in the US District [...]

A cyberattack on Dynasplint Systems in Severna Park, MD resulted in the potential access or theft of personal and protected health information (PHI). The company  manufactures proprietary stretching gadgets for enhancing joint motion. The security [...]

In June 2020, the web servers of Netsential based in Houston, TX was hacked resulting in the theft of roughly 270 gigabytes of information. The hacking group Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) published the stolen [...]

A group of researchers from Harvard University investigated the technologies being used in COVID-19 home monitoring. A variety of technologies were created to cut down the possibility of being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and diagnose signs [...]

HEOPS Inc. together with its subsidiary CENTIPEDE Care Solutions LLC had finished the 6-stage HIPAA risk analysis and remediation process of Compliancy Group and had shown that they have a reliable HIPAA compliance program in [...]

There were two critical vulnerabilities discovered in XenMobile Server / Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM). An unauthenticated attacker may exploit the vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2020-8208 and CVE-2020-8209 to get access to the credentials of a domain [...]

Technology and security consultant Jeremiah Fowler announced that the personal and health information of about 2.5 million patients were exposed on the internet. On July 7, 2020, two folders that contain the information were found [...]

July had a big decrease in the amount of data breach reports involving at least 500 healthcare records. July had 36 data breach reports, which was 30.8% month-over-month less than June’s 52 breach reports. But [...]

A database that contains the personal data of over 3.1 million patients was exposed on the internet and was eventually wiped out by the Meow bot. A security researcher named Volodymyr ‘Bob’ Diachenko found the [...]

Behavioral Health Network (BHN), the biggest provider of behavioral health service in Western Massachusetts, has reported a malware attack on its computer systems which made its files inaccessible. BHN discovered the security breach on May [...]

A phishing attack on the University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, Inc. (FPI) potentially resulted in the access of the protected health information (PHI) of the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) patients by unauthorized people. [...]

A ransomware attack on Owens Ear Center based in Fort Worth, Texas happened on May 28, 2020 that caused encryption of patient information. The encrypted device comprised patients’ healthcare records that enclosed data like names, [...]

Compliancy Group certified that Nanodropper Inc., a medical device firm, has put in place an appropriate HIPAA compliance program and has exhibited compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security, Privacy, Omnibus, [...]

Compliancy Group has certified that New Dimensions Therapeutic Alliances based in Southern California successfully carried out its exclusive 6-Stage HIPAA Risk Analysis and remediation process, which confirmed its implementation of a reliable HIPAA compliance program. [...]

The healthcare system FHN based in Freeport, IL is sending notifications to some patients that an unauthorized individual has potentially accessed several employees’ email accounts from February 12 to February 13, 2020 resulting in the [...]