A class action lawsuit has been settled by Magellan Health on behalf of approximately 273,000 patients who had their protected health information exposed in a…
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Parma-based Health Aid of Ohio has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit to resolve claims made by individuals who had their information exposed in…
A class action lawsuit filed against Missouri-based BJC Healthcare has resulted in a settlement. The nonprofit healthcare provider has agreed to create a fund to…
A class action lawsuit filed against the Urology Center of Colorado has reach a settlement agreement. The lawsuit was filed against the healthcare provider in…
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Morristown-based Lamoille Health Partners following a ransomware attack involving the PHI of 59,381 patients. On June 13,…
A class action lawsuit against California-based Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare has resulted in a $340,000 settlement. The healthcare provider will establish the fund to resolve…
A lawsuit has been filed against Wilsonville-based Avamere Holdings for a data breach affecting 96 senior living facilities and involved the release of the protected…
A lawsuit has been filed to data broker Kochava by the U.S. Federal Trade Commision (FTC) for its alleged unlawful collection of geolocation user data,…
A class action lawsuit has been settled by Humana & Cotiviti after a data breach that disclosed the personal information of 64,654 individuals. The breach…
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s primary enforcer, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has recently settled a violation case with the New England…
Henderson & Walton Women’s Center P.C. (HWWC) has recently announced that it has experienced a data breach involving the exposure of the protected health information…
Vermont-based Lamoille has recently announced that they have experienced a ransomware attack involving PHI of 59,381 patients. On June 13, 2022, Lamoille Health Partners detected…
Florida Orthopaedic Institute (FOI) has agreed to a $4 million settlement for a class-action lawsuit regarding a data breach affecting approximately 640,000 individuals. In June…
Novant Health has recently issued a notification reporting a data breach has occurred involving the PHI of over 1.36 million patients. The unauthorized disclosure of…
Telehealth solution provider, Let’s Talk, has announced that it has achieved full HIPAA compliance. The statement, issued on April 13, 2022, confirmed that the provider…
A class action lawsuit has been settled by Dental Care Alliance as the result of a data breach affecting 1.7 million individuals. Dental Care Alliance…
Fast Track Urgent Care, a network of urgent healthcare clinics based in Florida, has recently announced that it has experienced a data breach affecting 259,411…
Aetna ACE has recently announced it has been subject to a ransomware attack on a mailing vendor. The data breach involves the unauthorized disclosure of…
Professional Finance Company, a Greely, Colorado-based accounts receivable management company has announced that they experienced a ransomware attack in February 2022. The payment vendor provides…
The Cloud Security Alliance has released guidelines advising how healthcare organizations can manage risks to data security posed by third party vendors. Business associates of…
A class action lawsuit has been settled in the Harris County District Court in Texas involving the Methodist Hospitals Inc. The settlement comes as a…
Tenet Healthcare and Baptist Health have received a class action lawsuit as a result of a major data breach affecting approximately 1.2 million individuals. On…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report suggesting that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduces a mechanism for feedback to…
A draft bipartisan bill has been introduced to replace current data privacy laws in different U.S.states. Introduced to the house of representatives in early June,…
A new class-action lawsuit has been filed against Google in the Uk as a result of a 2016 data scandal, which involved the discovery of…
According to a recent analysis of hospital websites, a third of the top 100 hospitals in the US are sharing patient information to Facebook using…
The FDA has published a draft guidance regarding medical device cybersecurity. With the guidance entitled “‘Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of…
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Meta for allegedly scraping PHI from hospital and medical provider websites. The case was filed in the Northern…
Shields Health Care Group is confronted with a class-action lawsuit because of the 2 million-record data breach it recently reported. This is the largest healthcare…
The protected health information (PHI) of approximately 2 million persons was possibly exposed in a cyberattack on Shields Health Care Group. Shields Health Care Group…
In March 2022, Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) stated that third-party forensic experts were involved to help recover the service of its IT solutions subsequent…
The medical equipment firm NuLife Med LLC located in Manchester, NH, has lately reported that it suffered a cyberattack in March 2022. It detected suspicious…
Numerous healthcare data breaches are happening, yet not all privacy and security problems originate from beyond the company. The Department of Health and Human Services’…
Deaconess Health System based in Indiana and Blue Earth County based in Minnesota have informed individuals who had their sensitive personal data has accessed by…
The law firm BakerHostetler has shared its 8th Annual Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report, which offers insights according to 1,270 data security incidents managed…
An audit of the Health Insurance Exchange of Connecticut, Access Health CT, by the state auditor showed that Access Health CT encountered 44 data breaches…
Healthcare hacking incidents are considerably increasing for several years. Hacking/IT incidents went up by 45% from 2019 to 2020. In 2021, 66% of breaches relating…
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule necessitates the issuance of a data breach notification letter to the Secretary of the HHS “without unnecessary delay” and no…
New York Attorney General Letitia James reported the first settlement of 2022 involving a healthcare data breach. The vision benefits company in Ohio, Med Vision…
QRS, a healthcare technology services firm and EHR vendor in Tennessee, is confronted with a class-action lawsuit related to a cyberattack in August 2021 that…
The CyberPeace Institute has published new information on cyberattacks in the healthcare sector. As per the most current stats, 295 cyberattacks are identified to have…
In March 2021, Broward County Public Schools located in Florida suffered a ransomware attack resulting in the encryption of its data files. Based on the…