Meharry Medical College located in Nashville, TN found an email account breach that possibly allowed unauthorized persons to get access or steal the protected health information (PHI) of up to 20,983 patients. Meharry Medical College […]
Before September, the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights only issued three financial penalties on covered entities and business associates over HIPAA violations. Yet, in September, there was a squall of notices regarding HIPAA settlements when […]
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 […]
The 12th HIPAA penalty of 2020 has been reported by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). It is the 8th under the HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative since […]
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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