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Month: September 2020

Email Account Breaches at Alameda Health System, EyeMed Vision Care and Century Specialty Script

September 30, 2020 Site Editor

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 IT Systems All Over USA Inaccessible Because of Ransomware Attack

September 29, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Multiple Lawsuits Filed Due to the Recent Healthcare Data Breaches

September 28, 2020 Site Editor

People affected by the recent data breaches that occurred at Blackbaud and Assured Imaging took legal action for the compromise and theft of their personal data and protected health information (PHI). Several Lawsuits Filed in […]

CISA Issues Advisory After a Spike in LokiBot Malware Activity

September 25, 2020 Site Editor

stealing credentials from several applications and data resources, such as Firefox, Safari, and Chrome web browsers. It likewise rips off credentials utilized for email accounts, sFTP and FTP clients. The malware can be used to […]

Montefiore Medical Center and Geisinger Terminates Workers Involved in Unauthorized PHI Access

September 24, 2020 Site Editor

Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York has dismissed a worker due to the supposed theft of the protected health information PHI of around 4,000 patients. Montefiore learned about the possible internal data breach in […]

Sudden Infant Death Services of Illinois Receives HIPAA Seal of Compliance

September 23, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Healthcare Data Breach Summary Report for August 2020

September 22, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Vulnerabilities Discovered in Philips Clinical Collaboration Platform

September 21, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

CISA/FBI Gives Advisory About Targeted Cyber Attacks by Iranian Hacking Groups

September 18, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

HHS Launches New Security Risk Assessment Tool

September 17, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Class Action Medical Records Lawsuit Filed Against HealthAlliance Hospital and Ciox Health

September 16, 2020 Site Editor

HealthAlliance Hospital and its health record management vendor, Ciox Health, are facing a lawsuit for refusing to give a widow the medical records of her deceased husband. In October 2020, the husband of Sherry Russell, […]

Inova Health System Confirms 1.05 Million People Affected by Blackbaud Ransomware Attack

September 15, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Federal Judge Dismissed Privacy Lawsuit Against UChicago and Google

September 14, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

MeDLiTE Inc. Receives the HIPAA Seal of Compliance

September 11, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Victims of the Baton Rouge Clinic Ransomware Attack and the Blackbaud Ransomware Attack

September 10, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Resources to Help Healthcare Organizations Enhance Resilience Against Insider Threats

September 9, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Feedback Required on Draft Consumer Privacy Framework for Health Information Not Protected by HIPAA

September 8, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Blackbaud Data Breach Impacts Almost 1 Million

September 7, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

PHI Exposed Due to CyberAttacks on Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, D&S Residential Holdings and Cook Children’s Medical Center

September 4, 2020 Site Editor

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 Receives HIPAA Seal of Compliance

September 3, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

Konica Minolta Pays $500,000 to Resolve EHR False Claims Case

September 2, 2020 Site Editor

Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. is going to pay $500,000 as a financial penalty to bring to an end a case against Viztek LLC, its ex-subsidiary, to take care of False Claims Act violations in […]

Recommended Practices to Avoid PHI Exposure in Online Medical Presentations

September 1, 2020 Site Editor

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 […]

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