The House of Representatives voted to remove the restriction on the Department of Health and Human Services to use federal funds for creating a national…
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has issued to Lifespan ACE, an affiliated covered entity of Lifespan Health System, a $1,040,000 HIPAA fine right after…
Grays Harbor Community Hospital and Harbor Medical Group accepted the proposed settlement deal of the class-action lawsuit that the representative plaintiff filed in connection with…
A lot more organizations these days are implementing their digital transformations and are utilizing the flexibility, scalability, and cost savings presented by public cloud spaces….
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is confronted with legal action pertaining to two privacy breaches that involved staff accessing the medical records of patients without…
Daniel Bendetowicz, MD, PA is informing 3,314 patients about the exposure of their PHI because of a ransomware attack. The attack took place on March…
UPMC Altoona found out about an unauthorized access to the email account of one doctor and the person possibly viewed or obtained the protected health…
Confido, a pharmacy benefits consulting company began mailing notification letters to 3,600 of its clients’ personnel, users, and their dependents concerning the probable access of…
TigerConnect is a company in the U.S.A. offering the most popular secure healthcare communications platform. It announced that it is giving U.S. health systems and…
The University of Washington Medicine is facing a lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court with regards to a data breach that caused the exposure…
The new Vade Secure report unveiled the top 25 commonly impersonated brands in phishing attacks. The Phishers’ Favorite report for Q4 of 2019 stated that…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued its Privacy Framework version 1.0 on January 16, 2020. The goal of the Privacy Framework is…
Ransomware attacks are now more advanced. Cybercriminals are creating new approaches and strategies to access systems and deploy ransomware. The most common ways of accessing…
Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss), the Commerce Committee Chair, presented a draft copy of the United States Consumer Data Privacy Act of 2019 (CDAP). CDAP is…
As per the Inflation Adjustment Act, the U.S Department of Health and Human Services took into account the inflation rate when issuing civil monetary penalties…
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) paid OCR $3 million as HIPAA penalty for failing to implement encryption on mobile gadgets and for other…
Little Rock Plastic Surgery (LRPS) is in the process of notifying patients of a data security incident which saw a former employee illegally access the…
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico and the states of Florida,…
Taxpayers and business have been warned of a new IRS phishing scam being used to spread keylogging malware. The hackers design the emails to appear…
The Hospice of San Joaquin in Stockton, California, is in the process of notifying patients that their protected health information may have been compromised in…
The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a limited waiver of HIPAA sanctions and penalties in Louisiana following Tropical Storm Barry making…
Vitagene is in the process of investigating a data breach which has resulted in sensitive information of 3,000 customers from being exposed online. Vitagene, based…
Medical Center Enterprise, Alabama, has been ordered to pay a woman $300,000 in damages for violating her privacy rights. Amy Pertuit’s patient rights were violated…
A former nurse at Takai, Hoover & Hsu has is under investigation for impermissibly accessing of the protected health information (PHI) of 16,542 patients. The…
A sexual assault victim has filed a lawsuit against a Kansas hospital for disclosing her private health information to her attacker. The then proceeded to…
St. Vincent Medical Center is once again notifying patients of a data breach after experience a fourth phishing attack since December 2018. On March 26,…
MD Anderson Cancer Centre has fired three scientists over allegations of espionage. The National Institutes of Health (NiH) contacted MD Anderson Cancer Centre, a world-leading…
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) has released a report indicating that financial losses due to cybercrime rose drastically in 2018. The 2018 Internet…
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has issued a statement about a recent ransomware attack on the Wolverine Solutions Group, which may have affected up to…
Pasquotank-Camden Emergency Medical Services (PCEMS) has contacted more than 20,000 patients that their data may have been compromised during a data breach. Hackers exploited a…
All HIPAA covered entities (CEs) should be aware that the deadline for reporting data breaches that occurred in 2018 of fewer than 500 records is…
Researchers at Menlo Security have announced the discovery of a new campaign tactic used by hackers to distribute the Emotet Trojan malware. Menlo Security’s researchers…
A new phishing threat has been revealed in which the hacker has created a custom web font on their phishing website which renders the malicious…
A data security incident at Lebanon VA Medical Center has resulted in the protected health information (PHI) up to a thousand patients being accidentally sent…
Mimecast has recently released the results of a survey on employee security awareness training in businesses. The results show that in many organisations, employees are…
Prairie Fields Family Medicine has announced that an email error has resulted in the protected health information (PHI) of nearly 6,500 patients being compromised. Prairie…
Bankers Life, a health insurance organisation which is part of the CNO Financial Group Inc., has experienced a data breach which has affected more than…
Protenus, a healthier security organisation, has released its quarterly Breach Barometer Report for Q3 2018. The report is designed to give an insight into the…
February 24, 2018 In January, a new data breach notice bill was announced in Colorado that suggested updates to state rules to improve safeguards for…
February 25, 2018 Is IBM Cloud HIPAA compliant? Is the cloud platform appropriate for healthcare companies in the United States to introduce infrastructure, develop health…
June 27, 2018 Patients who believe HIPAA Laws have been violated can submit a complaint to the Division of Health and Human Services’ Office for…
March 17, 2018 Intercom’s messaging software-as-a-service solutions are trendy with companies for conversing with possible clients. The solutions have the possibility for use in the…
April 12, 2018 The Division of Health and Human Services has filed a proposal to reject a court case filed by the healthcare information management…
April 13, 2018 An ex-receptionist at a New York dental practice has been penalized to serve 2 to 6 years in state prison for stealing…
June 2, 2018 The Division of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reminded protected units that HIPAA not only needs technical…
June 16, 2018 SendGrid is an electronic mail marketing platform that lets businesses easily and quickly transmit their marketing messages to clients, however, can the…
June 17, 2018 The Division of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has released new guidance for HIPAA-covered units to simplify HIPAA approvals…
June 21, 2018 April was a specifically bad month for healthcare data breaks with 41 reported incidents. Although it is certainly good news that there…
July 5, 2018 Healthcare companies have been reminded of HIPAA patch administration necessities to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of ePHI is protected. Patch…
August 15, 2018 The Oklahoma Division of Veteran Matters has been blamed of breaking Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Laws by three Democrat…