Recent HIPAA News
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Blackberry has lately released its Global Threat Intelligence Report, which gives useful and contextualized intelligence that may be employed to enhance cyber strength. The report used information gathered by Blackberry and threat intelligence furnished by [...]
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CommonSpirit Health is facing one more lawsuit because of a ransomware attack and data security breach in 2022 that states the nation’s biggest catholic health system did not use acceptable and proper safety measures to [...]
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BayCare Clinic Reported Data Breach Related to Pixel The healthcare provider BayCare Clinic, LLP based in Wisconsin lately reported that the protected health information (PHI) of around 134,000 patients was impermissibly disclosed to unauthorized third [...]
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Using AI in healthcare has a lot of advantages, such as the acceleration of drug creation and the analysis of medical images. However, the same AI systems that help healthcare can likewise be employed for [...]
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ADEC Innovations Healthcare was just certified as fully compliant with all pertinent terms of the HIPAA Security, Privacy, Omnibus, and Breach Notification Rules, and the HITECH Act. As a service provider to the healthcare sector, [...]
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Mayo Clinic has resolved one more lawsuit that resulted from a data breach that involve a previous employee, who was found to have viewed the data of patients with no permission, which includes nude pictures. [...]
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Although it is hard to get exact information on the number of ransomware attacks being done on healthcare companies, the available information indicates a drop in attacks throughout all industries when compared to the number [...]
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There are fewer reported healthcare data breaches for two consecutive months. December 2022 had 40 data breaches involving 500 and up healthcare records, which is the lowest monthly number in 2022. The reported healthcare data [...]
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Healthcare ransomware attacks have increased twofold in the past 5 years, file recovery from backups has dropped, and it is now usual for information to be stolen and released to the public right after a [...]
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Several lawsuits were filed against Shields Health Care Group in Massachusetts in relation to one of the biggest healthcare data breaches in 2022, where nearly 2 million people were affected. The lawsuits were combined into [...]
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The health system CommonSpirit Health based in Chicago, IL is dealing with a class action lawsuit due to a ransomware attack in October 2022. Malicious actors accessed its IT network on September 16, 2022, and [...]
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The practices of acquiring permission from users of Facebook and Instagram to utilize their personal information for marketing purposes have been subject to a lengthy investigation. Finally, Meta has been penalized €390 million or $414 [...]
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Heartland Alliance located in Chicago, IL, a social justice and human rights organization, announced on December 15, 2022, that it experienced a cyberattack. The organization discovered the security breach on January 26, 2022, and took [...]
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In June 2022, it was reported that Fitzgibbon Hospital based in Marshall, MO suffered a ransomware attack, which the DAIXIN Team threat group claimed responsibility for. According to the group’s spokesperson, the hospital’s systems were [...]
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Many ransomware attacks are still carried out on healthcare companies, however, finding out the magnitude to which healthcare providers are being attacked by ransomware groups is a difficult task. Ransomware attack victims do not usually [...]
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Fertility Centers of Illinois has offered to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit submitted on behalf of patients and staff members who were impacted by its data breach in February 2021. On February 1, 2021, [...]
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November had 31% fewer healthcare data breaches reported compared to October 2022. November had a total of 49 breaches involving 500 and up records, which is below the 58 breaches per month 12-month average. In [...]
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Plaintiffs in a consolidated class action lawsuit against Meta lately sought an injunction versus Meta to make the company discontinue accumulating and transmitting information gathered from the sites of healthcare companies via Meta Pixel tracking [...]
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Midwest Orthopaedic Consultants based in Illinois has reported that unauthorized persons accessed its computer system and encrypted files using ransomware. The healthcare provider detected the cyberattack on September 29, 2022, and took steps right away [...]
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Morley Companies has decided to resolve a class action lawsuit sent in on behalf of persons impacted by a big data breach that happened on or about August 1, 2022. Funding of $4.3 million was [...]
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Avem Health Partners based in Oklahoma City provides healthcare companies with administrative and technology services. It recently began informing its healthcare clients regarding a data breach that happened at 365 Data Centers, its vendor. 365 [...]
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An ex-nurse working at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Buffalo, NY was sentenced to serve 37 months in jail for tinkering with and stealing controlled prescription drugs meant for patients with cancer. [...]
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Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Citrix Gateway users are advised to see and ensure that their systems aren’t prone to a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that a highly capable Chinese advanced persistent [...]
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Occupational health services provider, Work Health Solutions based in San Jose, CA, has reported the exposure and potential theft of the protected health information (PHI) of 13,157 persons by unauthorized people who got access to [...]
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The private data of people visiting telehealth websites is being disclosed to big tech firms without the consent of the user because of the tracking code snippets added to websites, based on a recent review [...]
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The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported an arrangement with a Californian dental practice to settle multiple HIPAA violations associated with a complaint concerning impermissible disclosures of protected health information (PHI) on Yelp, an [...]
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San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital based in California and Receivables Performance Management based in Washington recently reported data breaches. The latter’s data breach has impacted more than 3.7 million persons. Receivables Performance Management Receivables Performance Management [...]
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Non-profit healthcare system Conway Regional Medical Center located in north central Arkansas has offered to pay $295,000 to settle a class action lawsuit that was submitted for people impacted by a 2019 data breach. The [...]
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Mobile health applications creators may need to comply with certain government legislation such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), FTC Health Breach Notification Rule, Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FD&C Act), FTC [...]
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Multiple class action lawsuits were filed against Empress EMS, the New York ambulance service, because of a ransomware attack that was discovered on July 14, 2022. The group responsible for the attack was the Hive [...]
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San Juan Regional Medical Center (SJRMC) based in Farmington, New Mexico, has presented a settlement to take care of a class action lawsuit associated with a data breach in September 2020 that impacted 68,792 individuals. [...]
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LastPass has announced that hackers acquired access to a third-party cloud storage solution that held customer information, though there was no compromise of user passwords. The hacking incident is associated with the data breach that [...]
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A team of 10 state Attorney Generals lately sent a letter to Apple CEO, Tim Cook, telling the company to use tougher privacy and security settings for programs accessible via the Apple App Store that [...]
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There was a small decrease in ransomware attacks in Q3, but it is too soon to say whether that decreasing trend will go on. Despite the decrease in attacks, ransomware continues to be the main [...]
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563,000 Patients and Health Plan Members Affected by Hacking and IT Incidents Consulting company Health Care Management Solutions LLC based in West Virginia, which provides healthcare for vulnerable individuals including veterans, has just submitted a [...]
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Hope Health Systems Inc. (HHS) based in Woodlawn, MD has just reported that it suffered a ransomware attack. The healthcare provider detected the attack on June 20, 2022, and engaged third-party forensics specialists to look [...]
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Gateway Rehabilitation Center (Gateway Rehab) based in Pennsylvania recently reported that it encountered an incident causing access problems to selected systems. Gateway Rehab detected the incident on June 13, 2022 and took quick action to [...]
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The dermatology practice, Forefront Dermatology, based in Wisconsin has offered to resolve a class action lawsuit filed by patients who had their protected health information (PHI) exposed during a ransomware attack at the end of [...]
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Wright & Filippis, the prosthetics, orthotics, and accessibility service provider based in Rochester Hills, MI has just reported that it encountered a ransomware attack on its system. The attack happened from January 26 to January [...]
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There was a worldwide upsurge in cyberattacks in Quarter 3 of 2022. Attacks increased by 28% in contrast to the same period in 2021. Attacks today occur at an average rate of 1,130 every week, [...]
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Compliancy Group has recently confirmed that dentistry practice Dental Oasis, (Inku & Myung Dental Inc.) based in Inglewood, CA has an efficient HIPAA compliance program. Dental practices are categorized as covered entities according to the [...]
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Salud Family Health Gives Latest News on September 2022 Ransomware Attack Salud Family Health based in Colorado, a Federal Qualified Health Center (FQHC), just gave the latest information on a cyberattack that happened in September [...]
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Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania just approved Senate Bill 696. The bill broadens the definition of personal information that is covered in the Breach of Personal Information Notification Act which requires the issuance of notifications [...]
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A federal grand jury in Memphis charged five ex-employees of Methodist Hospital in Tennessee with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) criminal violations for impermissibly obtaining the protected health information (PHI) of patients and [...]
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CommonSpirit Health has just given news updates about the development of its recovery effort in response to the October 2022 ransomware attack that impacted numerous services throughout its network. The health system discovered the attack [...]
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The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has lately provided information on the tactics, techniques, and procedures related to Venus ransomware attacks. It gave a number of tips about mitigations that healthcare groups can carry [...]
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CommonSpirit Health has lately given an announcement about the development that has been done in recouping from a ransomware attack in October 2022 that impacted a lot of services throughout its network. The health system [...]
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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital has offered to settle a class action lawsuit that was filed in relation to two privacy breaches where employees accessed medical records without authorization. The Chicago hospital found [...]
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Aveanna Healthcare has decided to pay the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts $425,000 as a financial penalty for not implementing proper safety measures to avoid phishing attacks, thus violating state and government legislation. [...]
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A number of anesthesia service providers have reported that they were impacted by a data breach encountered by their management services organization (MSO). In October, 13 anesthesia services providers to hospitals were impacted by the [...]