Healthcare IT Compliance

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…

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…

Family of Woodstock (FOW), a New York company providing crisis intervention, information, protection, and support solutions, has encountered a cyberattack that caused the potential exposure…

Based on the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 80% of all reported cyberattacks in 2019 are caused by phishing and from the start of the…

Healthcare companies that must abide by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are dealing with difficulties reaching compliance, based on a new study publicized in…

Jackson Health has begun looking into a patient privacy violation case after a nurse posted images on Facebook of a baby that has a birth…

Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, WA has offered a settlement to take care of a class-action lawsuit it is facing. Victims of a breach…

A man from Texas was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment right after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to acquire data from a protected…

Dominion National in Virginia, an insurance provider, a health plan manager, and a dental and vision benefits manager, has consented to resolve a class-action lawsuit…

Many U.S. employers have put in place a policy that calls for their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, which includes a number of big…

A Michigan male has confessed to hacking into the human resource data storage of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center from 2013 to 2014 and…

SEIU 775 Benefits Group in Washington has informed around 140,000 of its members regarding the exposure of some of their protected health information (PHI). Around…

The Pennsylvania Department of Health along with its COVID-19 contact tracing vendor are being sued due to a breach of the personal and health information…

The new information blocking and interoperability rules created by the Department of Health and Human Services included in the 21st Century Cures Act became effective…

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and the Charles Hilton and Associates law company are confronting a class action lawsuit due to a breach of…

A former nurse at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center admitted to a crime of tampering with a consumer item in a case that involves fraudulence…

On March 4, 2021, Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), and Reps. Mikie Sherrill (D-New Jersey) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey) authored a letter recommending…

A female who was employed in a medical research laboratory at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH was sent to jail for theft of…

In May 2020, the cloud software corporation Blackbaud encountered a ransomware attack. As is typical in human-operated ransomware attacks, the attackers exfiltrated files before file…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed the $4,348,000 HIPAA violation charges enforced by the Department of Health and Human Services’…

On January 5, 2020, President Trump signed a bill (HR 7898) that makes changes to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act…

A vulnerability was found in Zyxel devices such as firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point (AP) controllers that hackers may take advantage of to get…

The DHS’ Cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Agency has published a website with resources concerning the recent activities of the advanced persistent threat (APT) group liable…

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has arrived at a settlement deal with Peter Wrobel, M.D., P.C., dba Elite…

A seasonal staff at a tech firm in Virginia got sentenced to 42 months imprisonment for accessing patient files, theft of personally identifiable information (PII),…

Rave Mobile Safety has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Solution that will make it possible for public health agencies to determine who should receive priority…

The City of New Haven, Connecticut has made the decision to resolve its HIPAA violation case with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office…

MITRE Corporation created a new rubric for determining Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores of medical device vulnerabilities and it has passed the FDA’s scrutiny….

The U.S. Department of Justice issued an advisory that an associate of the well known hacking group, The Dark Overlord, obtained his sentence to 5…

The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a security warning that hackers associated with China’s Ministry of State Security…