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Month: December 2019

Termination of a Former Exployee of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for Unauthorized Access of Patient Records

December 31, 2019 Site Editor

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, which is a pediatric specialty hospital, found out that an ex-employee accessed certain patients’ medical records without having an authorized work reason. The employee’s unauthorized action […]

Healthcare Data Breach Report Summary in November 2019

December 30, 2019 Site Editor

In November 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received 33 healthcare data breach reports with 500 or more records, which is 36.5% less than the reported breaches in […]

Patients Filed a Lawsuit Against DCH Health System Over the October Ransomware Attack

December 27, 2019 Site Editor

The Northern District of Alabama filed a lawsuit against DCH Health System in the Western Division of U.S. District Court because of a ransomware attack that happened on October 1, 2019. The ransomware attack forced […]

Korunda Medical Was Penalized $85,000 for HIPAA Right of Access Failures

December 26, 2019 Site Editor

The second enforcement action was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights as per the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. Korunda Medical in Florida agreed to resolve potential violations […]

House Energy and Commerce Committee Released a Discussion Draft of Federal Data Privacy Bill

December 25, 2019 Site Editor

The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a draft of the discussion of a new bipartisan data privacy bill. The bill concerns the national standards for privacy and security and plans to put limits on […]

Compliancy Group Webinar on Lessons and Examples from 2019 HIPAA Breaches and Fines

December 24, 2019 Site Editor

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights had another busy year with HIPAA enforcement. To date in 2019, OCR imposed 9 financial penalties on HIPAA covered entities and business associates […]

15 Million Customers Affected by Ransomware Attack on LifeLabs in Canada

December 23, 2019 Site Editor

LifeLabs located in Toronto, one of the biggest Canadian medical testing and diagnostics companies, submitted a serious data breach report. Hackers possibly viewed the personal and medical information of around 15 million individuals, mostly residents […]

Tidelands Health Malware Attack and Children’s Hope Alliance Laptop Computer Theft

December 20, 2019 Site Editor

Tidelands Health located in Georgetown, SC, is working 24 / 7 to reestablish its computer systems after discovering malware on its system on December 12, 2019. The malware attack has compelled the healthcare company to […]

Poor Implementation of RSA Encryption Allows Attacks on Medical Devices and Implants

December 19, 2019 Site Editor

Encryption makes data unavailable to unauthorized people, as long as strong encryption is utilized and the private key to decrypt information isn’t compromised. Not all encryption algorithms give a similar protection level. The effectiveness of […]

Theft of Stolen Devices Contain PHI of Truman Medical Centers and La Clínica de La Raza Patients

December 18, 2019 Site Editor

Truman Medical Centers located in Kansas City, MO, the biggest inpatient and outpatient services provider in the city, learned that an unencrypted laptop computer that contains 114,466 patients’ protected health information (PHI) was stolen from […]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Begins Fixing 200,000 Critical and Severe Vulnerabilities

December 17, 2019 Site Editor

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, the state’s biggest health insurance provider, is currently working to resolve about 200,000 unaddressed vulnerabilities identified on its servers, some of which are over ten years old. In August […]

Smile Metrics Consulting Receives HIPAA Seal of Compliance

December 16, 2019 Site Editor

Smile Metrics Consulting, a dental marketing consulting company, has finished the 6-Stage HIPAA risk analysis and remediation process of the Compliancy Group and showed it implements a reliable HIPAA compliance program. Smile Metrics Consulting assists […]

Phishing Attack at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Compromised Patient Data

December 13, 2019 Site Editor

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center located in Wyoming lately discovered the compromise of patient data because of a phishing attack in April. On or around April 5, 2019, the medical center received notification concerning a potential […]

Phishing Attacks on Sunrise Community Health and Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital

December 12, 2019 Site Editor

Sunrise Community Health based in Evans, CO discovered the compromise of several employees’ email accounts because its employees responded to phishing emails. Unauthorized individuals accessed the email accounts from September 11, 2019 to November 22, […]

Compliancy Group Certified Adstream as HIPAA Compliant

December 11, 2019 Site Editor

Compliancy Group has declared the full compliance of Adstrem, a global advertising technology, and services provider, with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The Group also confirms its effective HIPAA compliance plan. Adstream […]

Banner Health Settlement of Breach Lawsuit Costs $6 Million

December 10, 2019 Site Editor

In June 2016, Banner Health sustained a data breach which resulted in the theft of the protected health information (PHI) of 2.9 million people. Victims of the breach filed a class-action lawsuit in August 2016. […]

Data Breaches at Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Elizabeth Family Health

December 9, 2019 Site Editor

Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (SEMOMS) made an announcement a ransomware attack that caused the potential exposure of the protected health information (PHI) of about 80,000 patients. The ransomware attack was seen on September […]

Solara Medical Supplies Faces Lawsuit Over 114,000-Record Data Breach

December 6, 2019 Site Editor

Solara Medical Supplies is confronted with a lawsuit involving a data breach in June 2019 resulting in the exposure of the protected health information (PHI) of over 114,000 customers and the potential data theft by […]

Legal Action Filed Against Kalispell Regional Healthcare Due to the 130,000-Record Data Breach

December 5, 2019 Site Editor

Kalispell Regional Healthcare based in Montana is getting sued as a consequence of a phishing attack that made it possible for hackers to get access to the email accounts of employees that have the protected […]

Nebraska Medicine Insider Data Breach and Presbyterian Healthcare Services Phishing Attack

December 4, 2019 Site Editor

Nebraska Medicine learned that a member of its staff got access to patients’ healthcare data without any authorized work reason for a time period of about three months. Nebraska Medicine uncovered the privacy violation while […]

Phishing Attacks on Comprehensive Sleep Care Center and McLaren Health Plan Potentially Impact PHI

December 3, 2019 Site Editor

Loudoun Medical Group, also called the Comprehensive Sleep Care Center (CSCC), had a phishing attack some time on June 19, 2019. The IT department was cautioned regarding a potential email security breach upon detecting suspicious […]

Patients Could Make Use of the New Alexa Healthcare Skill to Process Their Prescribed Medicines

December 2, 2019 Site Editor

Amazon’s Alexa now features a new healthcare skill that patients may employ in handling their prescription drugs and purchasing prescription refills. At the beginning of this year, Amazon stated that it has made a HIPAA-eligible […]

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