The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed that a HIPAA breach settlement has been agreed with Peachstate Health…
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In relation to policing compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Rules state Attorneys General play a major part. State attorneys general have…
In the latter half of 2020 the joint CISA, FBI, and HHS cybersecurity advisory issued an alert for the healthcare and public health sectors as…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has released new information in relation to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act…
Dental Care Alliance, LLC, a dental support group with over 320 affiliated dental practices spread across 20 states, has been hacked and the protected health…
Hackers using Ragnar Locker ransomware have increased up their activity and have been focusing on companies and groups in a number of different sectors, according…
An update on ransomware activity targeting the healthcare and public health sectors has been released by the HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness…
An additional two hospitals have been impacted by ransomware attacks that have resulted in their computer networks being offline and medics having to use pen…
A new version of the Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool has been released by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights….
The update to the Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been updated…
The discovery of a security flaw IoT device components could allow cybercriminals to illegally obtain valuable private data or use the devices in further cyberattacks….
In Washington, the House of Representatives has voted to remove the ban on the Department of Health and Human Services using federal funds to create…
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has sanctioned a $1,040,000 HIPAA fine on Lifespan Health System Affiliated Covered Entity (Lifespan ACE) following the discovery of…
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed that a $25,000 settlement has been agreed with Metropolitan Community Health Services to settle breaches of…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is pondering which of the 31 recent amendments to telehealth policies should remain in place when…
When patients suffer from an infectious respiratory disease like COVID-19, the immune system creates antibodies that put in place protection if the pathogen is another…
In separate incident employees based in Michigan and Illinois have been fired from their positions due to their involvement in HIPAA violations. At Ann &…
The Fortune 500 company Magellan Health has announced it experienced a ransomware attack in April that resulted in the encryption of files and theft of…
The most recent Patient Record Scorecard Report from Ciitizen has shown that there has been a welcome improvement in compliance with the HIPAA Right of…
Compliancy Group has revealed that Safe Partner Inc. has been able to show the establishment of a strong HIPAA compliance program and has successfully completed…
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released guidance to healthcare providers to reinforce the point that the HIPAA Privacy Rule forbids media and…
On February Patch Tuesday, 2020, Microsoft made available a patch for a critical flaw the impacts Microsoft Exchange Servers which could possibly be targeted by…
The McHenry County Health Department in Illinois has been refusing to hand over the names of COVID-19 patients to 911 dispatchers to safeguard the privacy…
The HHS has released a Notice of Enforcement Discretion covering healthcare suppliers and business associates that participate in the operation of COVID-19 community-based testing centers….
The Department of Health and Human Services announced, n April 2, 2020, that it will from here on be exercising enforcement discretion and will not…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released additional guidance on HIPAA and COVID-19, the disease caused by…
After the initial announcement from the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights that enforcement of HIPAA compliance in relation to the good faith provision of telehealth…
During February there were 39 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records reported and 1,531,855 records were breached, which is the same as a…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made public the first HIPAA penalty of 2020. The medical practice of…
Healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights at a rate…
A Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit has found that a number of pharmacies and other healthcare providers are…
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule States that data breaches of 500 or greater records to be made known to the Secretary of the Department of…
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a final rule amending the HIPAA National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) D.0 Telecommunication Standard…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DDPA) has recorded the highest number of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breach notifications according to a report published by…
There were an increase of 8.57%, from the previous month, of healthcare data breaches reported during December. 38 breaches of 500 or greater records were…
On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) came became enforceable. CCPA enhanced privacy security for state residents and gave Californians new rights …
Most group health plan sponsors are not fully adhering to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Rules, according to a recently published by the…
If Gmail is to be deemed HIPAA compliant, Google would have to see to it that the service provided is 100% secure and adheres with…
Google and its parent company Alphabet are being targeting to release details regarding how the protected health information (PHI) of patients of Ascension will be…
The Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights has released updated guidelines which aims to set in stone when students’ health information can…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has revealed its second enforcement penalty has been applied under its HIPAA Right of…
Ransomware attacks are often conducted indiscriminately, with the file-encrypting software commonly distributed in mass spam email campaigns. However, since 2017, ransomware attacks have become far…
In May 2019, Microsoft announced a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Services referred to as BlueKeep – CVE-2019-0708. The cybersecurity community…
A security breach has been announced by Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York. The incident that transpired in late July 2019 involved the installation of…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights charged Jackson Health System (JHS) with a civil monetary penalty amounting to $2.15 million….
Due to a data breach on the Palmetto Health website, Prisma Health Midlands is sending breach notifications to around 19,000 patients and 3,000 employees. Prisma…
Healthcare data breaches bring about a lower quality of patient care, as per a study just posted in Health Services Research. Researchers studied data from…
Roger Severino, the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Director, gave a report on the priorities of OCR’s HIPAA enforcement during the OCR/NIST 11th Annual HIPAA…
The password manager provider LastPass recently conducted a study, which revealed that only 57% of companies make use of multi-factor authentication, despite the fact that…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation gave an alert regarding e-skimming threats, after attacks on SMBs and government institutions increased. E-skimming refers to the adding of…
Because nine companies failed to keep their medical databases secure, the sensitive health information of millions of patients were exposed online. The security researchers at…
There were 36 healthcare data breaches involving over 500 records reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights in September….
South Texas Dermatopathology is the last identified casualty of the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) data breach. It has reported the data breach to the…
Malicious code was found installed on the e-commerce website of Mission Health in Western North Carolina. The malicious code can capture the payment information entered…
A recent Proofpoint report gives information on the cyber threats that healthcare organizations encounter and the most common attacks that result in healthcare data breaches….
Due to a phishing attack on August 7, 2019, UAB Medicine is informing its patients regarding the potential access of a number of employee email…
S.4119/A.230 is a new legislation signed into law on October 7, 2019 by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. This law forbids first response and ambulance…
The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) has published a new medical device security standard that offers healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) crucial data regarding risk…
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) found that sensitive data of patients suffering from hepatitis B and hepatitis C were exposed over the web…
Advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are taking advantage of flaws in widely used VPN products provided by FortiGuard, Palo Alto and Pulse Secure to obtain…
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) sent notifications to some of its patients after their protected health information (PHI) were exposed due to a phishing…
A recent B2B International survey undertaken on behalf of Kaspersky Lab showed the rise in the average cost of an enterprise-level data breach from $1.23…
9,160 patients from Goshen Health in Indiana received notification about its phishing-related email breach in August 2018 that could have resulted in the potential exposure…
There has been a rise in the volume of business email compromise (BEC) attacks in the U.S. As per Symantec, about 6,029 businesses got BEC…
A ransomware attack on Sarrell Dental in Alabama, is non-profit Children’s dental and optical services provider resulted in the potential compromise of the protected health…
North Florida OB-GYN in Jacksonville, FL learned that hackers got access to particular portions of its computer system that contain personal and medical data of…
Atlantic.net is a HIPAA-compliant hosting company that teamed up with Compliancy Group and its HIPAA-compliance specialists in conducting a webinar on Cybersecurity and HIPAA Compliance….
Sen. Rand Paul, M.D., (R-Kentucky) has presented a new bill that attempts to permanently remove the national patient identifier provision of HIPAA because of the…
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia) wrote a letter to TridentUSA asking for an explanation concerning a breach involving sensitive medical images at MobileXUSA, one of its…
Integration Link, LLC is a provider of virtual Chief Information Security Officers and cybersecurity consultancy services to businesses of varying sizes — small, medium and…
In August, more than 1.5 healthcare data breaches were reported per day. This is the second consecutive month that there are a lot of reported…
Beginning October 1, 2019, health insurance providers and associated services have to notify the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) whenever a breach of insureds’ personal information…
Dr. Ulrich Klopfer from Indiana operated three abortion clinics until his license was suspended in 2015. He was found to have taken away fetal remains…
The managed care firm Magellan Health based in Scottsville, AZScottsville, AZ learned that phishing attacks on two of its subsidiaries caused the compromise of the…
Ramsey County has learned that the phishing attack on August 2018 has impacted considerably more persons than originally believed. The number of affected individuals went…
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) published the latest draft NIST mobile device security guidance to aid institutions to reduce the risks brought in…
The draft NIST guidelines for securing the picture archiving and communications system (PACS) ecosystem was issued by the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). The…
A phishing attack on East Central Indiana School Trust (ECIST) is the reason for the compromise of some protected health information (PHI) of more than…
The healthcare sector runs into a lot of phishing attacks. Every week, healthcare organizations report a number of phishing attacks resulting in protected health information…
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) released guidance on cybersecurity information sharing for healthcare organizations. HSCC is a partnership of over 200…
A new investigation by ProPublica has showcased a growing concern that is encouraging the existing ransomware problem. Insurance providers are preferring to pay ransom demands…
Premier Family Medicine, which is a physician group located in Utah, notified 320,000 patients concerning the potential exposure of their protected health information (PHI) caused…
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) found lately that the computer applications used by the researchers of its Department of Neurology was accessed without authorization. The individual…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) made an announcement early this year that HIPAA enforcement in 2019 would primarily…
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, has made an announcement placing Puerto Rico and the states of Georgia,…
A phishing attack on NCH Healthcare System, Bonita Springs located in Florida, highlighted how critical it is to train healthcare employees on security awareness. On…
The Swedish software firm Irdeto conducted the Global Connected Industries Cybersecurity Survey, which showed that 82% of healthcare organizations using Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices have encountered…
There is a vulnerability identified in Philips HDI 4000 Ultrasound systems that attackers could exploit to access ultrasound images. Besides stealing information, an attacker could…
Devices of Change Healthcare Cardiology, Horizon Cardiology and McKesson Cardiology were found to have a vulnerability, which a locally authenticated user could exploit to add…
May 2019 had 46 breaches with over 500 records exposed making it the worst month ever since the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights began reporting…
Mount Sinai Hospital discovered the compromise of 33,730 patients’ protected health information (PHI) as a result of the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) cyberattack. This…
The number of victims of the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) data breach has gone up to about 25 million with one more healthcare organization…
