TikTok’s $368 Million Penalty for Child Privacy Violations The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has reported that it finally made a decision regarding its inquiry into TikTok. It imposed a financial penalty of €345 million […]
Reported data breaches in July dropped by 15.2% with 56 breaches involving 500 and up records reported to the HHS OCR making July just an average month in terms of data breaches. In the last […]
The HIPAA law requirements for healthcare data transmission mandate that covered entities must implement appropriate safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ePHI during its transmission, including using encryption and secure communication protocols […]
HIPAA penalties for data breaches and cyberattacks can vary based on the severity of the violation, ranging from $100 to $50,000 per incident, with a maximum annual penalty of $1.5 million for each category of […]
563,000 Patients and Health Plan Members Affected by Hacking and IT Incidents Consulting company Health Care Management Solutions LLC based in West Virginia, which provides healthcare for vulnerable individuals including veterans, has just submitted a […]
Based on the latest security advisory released by the Five Eyes Cybersecurity agencies in the U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, the most frequent attack vectors cyber threat actors use for preliminary access to […]
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) has released guidance for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) on adopting an identity-centric strategy to enable safe and quick access to patient information to satisfy the interoperability, […]
The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) just recently issued a security warning urging companies to patch a critical remote code execution vulnerability present in Microsoft SharePoint. There is also an advisory from the DHS […]
Microsoft has given an additional notification to all Exchange users to apply the patch to vulnerability CVE-2020-0688, a critical Microsoft Exchange memory corruption. Microsoft provided an update to fix the vulnerability last February 2020 and […]
Landmark Hospital of Athens based in Georgia suspended three staff members who are alleged of viewing, copying or exposing patient records. The likely HIPAA breach can be associated to a legal case that four nursing […]
The University of Utah Health encountered another phishing attack that led to the exposure of the protected health information (PHI) of 2,700 patients. For the third time this year, the University of Utah had a […]
Monterey Health Center in Milwaukie, OR encountered a ransomware attack, which began on August 12, 2019. Because of the incident, its electronic health records system was encrypted and made patient information inaccessible. With the assistance […]
A ransomware attack on Campbell County Health located in Gillette, WY resulted in the disablement of hospital systems, which prevented access to patient information. The attack began in early in the morning of September 20, […]
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