The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has reported reaching a settlement with Village Plastic Surgery based in Ridgewood, NJ to resolve potential HIPAA Right of Access violations. Based on the conditions of the settlement, Village […]
Cancer Treatment Centers of America is notifying 104,808 of its Midwestern Regional Medical Center patients regarding the potential access by an unauthorized person to some of their protected health information (PHI) that is included in […]
In February 2021, reported data breaches involving 500 or more healthcare records increased by 40.63%. There were 45 data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, almost all […]
On January 12, 2021, Colorado Retina Associates in Denver found out that an unauthorized person accessed the email account of one employee and utilized it to send out phishing emails to contacts listed in the […]
Health plan management and back-office services provider PeakTPA based in St. Louis, MO-based provider reported a cyberattack with protected health information (PHI) theft that occurred on or approximately December 28, 2020. PeakTPA detected the security […]
Premier Diagnostics, a COVID-19 testing service based in Utah, has accidentally compromised the protected health information (PHI) of thousands of people. Bob Diachenko of Comparitech discovered two exposed Amazon S3 buckets on February 22, 2021. […]
About 207,000 people were confirmed to have been impacted by a ransomware attack on St. Cloud-based Netgain Technology LLC and that number may still go up. A number of entities in the healthcare sector, such […]
Making changes to the HIPAA Rules is not frequent, therefore whenever there is a proposition for updates, a range of new specifications and updates to existing terms is commonly included. Before undertaking any updates, a […]
The Arizona Supreme Court revived a HIPAA violation legal case that a man from Phoenix filed because of a privacy violation by a pharmacy worker associated with an erectile dysfunction medicine prescription. Greg Shepherd, aged […]
On March 4, 2021, Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), and Reps. Mikie Sherrill (D-New Jersey) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey)wrote a letter advocating the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to begin imposing the Health Breach […]
Governor Ralph Northam has signed into law the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA). CDPA mandates persons doing business in the Commonwealth of Virginia to follow new data privacy and security standards. The CDPA will […]
Cochise Eye and Laser, an ophthalmology and optometry company located in Sierra Vista, AZ, had a ransomware attack on January 13, 2021 and saw the encryption of its patient booking and billing application. Due to […]
The IBM X-Force published a new report that shows healthcare cyberattacks had a 100% increase in 2020 and 28% of attacks were ransomware attacks. The substantial increase in healthcare sector cyberattacks put the sector on […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) has lately published new guidance to assist companies to implement a Zero Trust approach to cybersecurity and have better protection against very advanced cyber threats. Zero Trust is a security […]
2020 was a notably awful year for the healthcare industry in terms of ransomware attacks. Fortune 500 healthcare system Universal Health Services (UHS) based in King of Prussia, PA suffered one of the worst ransomware […]
Covenant Healthcare based in Saginaw, MI has found out that an unauthorized individual acquired access to two email accounts of employees. The account held the protected health information (PHI) of roughly 45,000 patients. The healthcare […]
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