HIPAA Violation News

An unsealed complaint against 60 hospitals was filed in a U.S. District Court in Indiana in 2016 for violating the HITECH Act. The 60 hospitals…

A man was sentenced to serve a three-year jail term for fraud and blackmail offenses. Nathan Wyatt, a 36-year old from Wellingborough, England was allegedly…

A security breach at Baptist Health in Louisville, Kentucky was discovered on October 3, 2017. Potentially 880 patients had been notified that their sensitive information…

Nurse Dianna Hereford’s employment contract was terminated after a patient of Norton Audubon Hospital complained of a nurse HIPAA violation. Hereford filed an action in…

Tangela Lawson-Brown, a former nurse in a Tallahassee nursing home from October 2011 to December 2012, was convicted of possession of unauthorized access devices, wire…

The SAManage USA data breach in 2016 caused the online exposure of the Social Security numbers of 660 Vermont residents. The Vermont Attorney General required…

Florida Blue, the business name of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, has recently announced that the personally identifiable information of a nearly one…

Following a break-in at a file storage facility in East Brunswick, New Jersey, the Otolaryngology Associates of Central Jersey is in the process of alerting…

Amazon Web Services has announced that new safeguards have been incorporated into its cloud server that reduce the probability that users to misconfigure their S3…

A report covering data breaches in 2017 has recently been released by Risk Based Security (RBS). The report revealed there has been a 305% increase…

Cook County Health and Hospitals System has recently alerted patients to a breach of their protected health information (PHI). The organisation consists of a health…

In August, the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany (CCDA) performed a routine upgrade of its computer security software. While the technicians were working…

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has increased its enforcement operations in recent years, and 2016 HIPAA settlements were…

The Ottawa-based East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging (ECKAAA) has recently announced that it experienced a ransomware attack. The attack caused files on one…

Two former employees of Valley Family Medicine in Staunton, VA have been discovered to have inappropriately used a patient list, in violation of the practice’s…

The Brevard Physician Associates has announced that they have experienced a breach of protected health information (PHI). They state that the breach occurred due to…

An independent care provider, who provides care to patients of TJ Samson Community Hospital in South Central Kentucky, has recently been discovered to have inappropriately…

FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a Pinehurst, SC-based not for profit health network, has recently announced that it has experienced a data breach. They have identified…

Briggs Stratton Corporation, a manufacturer of lawnmower engines, has recently reported that they have experienced a breach of PHI, resulting from a malware attack. It…

Phishing-the act of obtaining sensitive information such as usernames, bank details or other private information, often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity…

Texas Children’s Health Plan has announced a breach of nearly 1,000 patient’s protected health information (PHI). The organisation said that the breach was discover when…

The Advanced Spine & Pain Center (ASPC) has announced that it has experienced a potential breach and unauthorized use of their protected health information. The…

The Man-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA has announced that it has experienced a breach of PHI. The breach was a result of the…

Dr Riaz Baber, M.D.-a Naperville, Illinois-based psychiatrist-has recently admitted to a breach of patient protected health information (PHI). The breach was discovered medical files of…

The radiology center of Mid-Michigan Physicians-managed by McLaren Medical Group-has announced today that they have experienced a breach of protected health information (PHI). They have…

A decommissioned laptop computer previously used by the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center (MGVAMC) in Spokane, WA, has been discovered to be missing. The laptop is…

Our Lady of the Angels Hospital has announced the discovery of a breach of patient protected health information (PHI).  The breach occurred when a former…

Recently, the MS Center of Saint Louis and Mercy Clinic Neurology Town and County have announced that they have breached HIPAA regulations. Over one-thousand patients…

Yolanda Farrar-former employee of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS)-has been fired from her position at the state hospital for breaching HIPAA legislation in…

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Bedford Memorial hospital has announced that an incident occurred at the facility which was in violation of HIPAA legislation….

Salina Family Healthcare, based in Kansas, has announced that they were subjected to a ransomware attack earlier this year. They stated that the ransomware was…

Women’s Health Care Group of Pennsylvania has announced that they have been subject to a data breach. The organisation states that the breach was noticed…