- + Almost 500,000 Individuals Affected by Designed Receivable Solutions Data Breach—The Cypress, CA-based revenue cycle management company, Designed Receivable Solutions (DRS), has recently confirmed the details of a data breach that ...
- + Patient Data Stolen from Livanova in October 2023 Ransomware Attack—The medical device manufacturer Livanova, the Massachusetts community behavioral health center Aspire Health Alliance, and Santa Rosa Behavioral Healt...
- + Email Breach at Wisconsin Dental Surgery Center Affects 13,000 Patients—Bay Oral Surgery & Implant Center (Bay Oral), a network of oral & maxillofacial dental surgery centers serving the Green Bay, Marinette, and N...
- + UHG CEO to Testify Before House E&C Subcommittee About Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack—UnitedHealth Group (UHG) CEO Andrew Witty is due to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight Investigations Subcommittee on Wednesday, M...
- + Which Section of the OSH Act Prevents Employers Discriminating Against Employees?—Section 11(c) of the OSH Act prevents employers discriminating against employees when they exercise their rights to engage in a protected activity as ...
- + FTC Issues Final Rule Updating Health Breach Notification Rule—The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule on April 26, 2024, that updates the FTC Health Breach Notification Rule. The update includes re...
- + Health Data Analytics Firm Reports 1.1-Million Record MSP Data Breach—A Portland, ME-based accounting and consulting firm has recently reported a data breach to the Maine Attorney General that involved the personal infor...
- + Bipartisan Coalition of Attorneys General Call for UHG to Take Decisive Action to Help Providers and Patients—A bipartisan coalition of 22 state attorneys general sent a letter to UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty to express their concern about the respons...
- + ComplianceJunction HIPAA Training Receives SCCE Accreditation—The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) has recently accredited ComplianceJunction’s ‘HIPAA Training for Organizations’ training course....
- + Phishers Gain Access to 23 L.A. County Department of Health Services Email Accounts—Los Angeles County Department of Health Services’ employees were targeted in a recent phishing campaign, and almost 2,800 Catholic Medical Cente...
- + Kaiser Permanente Website Tracker Breach Affects 13.4 Million Individuals—Kaiser Permanente Health Plan Inc. is notifying 13.4 million individuals that some of their personal data has been disclosed to third parties such as ...
- + BianLian Threat Group Claims Responsibility for Cyberattack on Tennessee Eye Clinic Network—Politzer and Durocher, PLC, which does business as Optometric Physicians of Middle Tennessee (OPMT), has recently reported a hacking incident to the H...
- + Multiple Class Action Lawsuits Filed Against City of Hope National Medical Center Over Data Breach—Several class action lawsuits have been filed against City of Hope National Medical Center, a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer treatm...
- + ONC Releases Common Agreement Version 2.0—On April 22, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released ...
- + Threat Actors Increasingly Targeting Vulnerabilities for Initial Access—The exploitation of vulnerabilities in software and operating systems is becoming far more common for initial access to networks, with phishing declin...
- + March 2024 Healthcare Data Breach Report—March was a particularly bad month for healthcare data breaches with 93 branches of 500 or more records reported to the Department of Health and Human...
- + HHS-OIG Warns Consumers About Remote Patient Monitoring Scam—The HHS Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) has issued a warning to the public about a fraud scheme that targets Medicare enrollees and involves the...
- + UHG: Substantial Proportion of US Population May Be Affected by Change Healthcare Cyberattack—Andrew Witty, Chief Executive of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) has confirmed that a ransom was paid to prevent the publication of data stolen in the Change...
- + Kisco Senior Living & Island Ambulatory Surgery Center Disclose Summer 2023 Cyberattacks—Notification letters have been sent to more than 34,500 individuals about ransomware attacks that occurred more than 9 months ago. Kisco Senior Living...
- + OCR Issues HIPAA Reproductive Health Care Privacy Final Rule—The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released its long-awaited Final Rule on reproductive healthcare pr...
- + Email Accounts Compromised at UW Health and Medical Home Network—Email accounts have been compromised at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority and the Medical Home Network in Illinois. Unive...
- + Cyberattacks Reported by Healthcare Providers in North Carolina, Rhode Island, & California—Knowles Smith & Associates, which does business as Village Family Dental and operates 7 dentistry offices in North Carolina, recently notified 240...
- + OctaPharma Plasma Closes Donation Centers While It Deals with Suspected Ransomware Attack—The Swiss pharmaceutical firm, Octapharma Plasma, is dealing with a cyberattack that has affected systems at 190 plasma donation centers in 35 U.S. st...
- + Only 28% of Ransomware Victims Choose to Pay Ransom—According to the Q1, 2024 ransomware report from the ransomware remediation firm Coveware, ransom payments have fallen to a record low with only 28% o...
- + FREE WEBINAR on THURSDAY: Best Practices For Effective Healthcare Compliance—Are you a HIPAA Officer or do you have responsibility for compliance in your organization? Are you 100% certain that all of your policies and proce...
- + What Is The Best Healthcare Compliance Software?—The best healthcare compliance software is a comprehensive management tool, that helps chief compliance officers to effectively oversee compliance eff...
- + Healthcare Compliance Software—The best HIPAA compliance software is a compliance management tool that helps a covered entity navigate the complexities and stringent requirements of...
- + OSHA Publishes 2023 Injury and Illness Data—The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published injury and illness data for 2023 , which was collected under OSHA’s July 2023 new Imp...
- + NY Attorney General Finds Northwell Health Deceptively Advertised COVID-19 Testing Sites—New York Attorney General, Letitia James, has announced a settlement with New York’s largest health network, Northwell Health, to resolve allegations ...
- + Cyberattacks Reported by UT Health Science Center; SysInformation Healthcare Services; Jackson Medical Center—Cyberattacks have been reported by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, SysInformation Healthcare Services (EqualizeRCM/1st Credentialin...
- + CISA & Partners Share New Threat Intelligence on Akira Ransomware—The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), and ...
- + Palo Alto Networks Updates Mitigations as Exploitation of 0Day Firewall Vulnerability Grows—Exploitation of a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability affecting Palo Alto Networks firewalls has grown since proof-of-concept exploits were rele...
- + Michigan’s Largest FQHC Suffers Ransomware Attack Affecting 184,000 Patients—Cherry Street Services, Inc., which operates as Cherry Health Services, fell victim to a ransomware attack in December 2023. Cherry Health is the larg...
- + Ransomware Attacks Up 20% YoY with 55% Increase in Active Ransomware Groups—An analysis of ransomware activity by GuidePoint Security’s Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT) shows a 55% year-over-year increase in active ransom...
- + Change Healthcare Investigates Potential Leak of Patient Data—Change Healthcare experienced an ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attack and reportedly paid a $22 million ransom to prevent 6TB of stolen data from being le...
- + Ernest Health Sued Over 2024 Ransomware Attack and Data Breach—The Texas health system Ernest Health is being sued by patients who had their protected health information compromised in a recent cyberattack. This i...
- + What Is The Best HIPAA Compliance Software?—The best HIPAA compliance software is an effective compliance management tool that helps a covered entity navigate the complexities and stringent requ...
- + 96% of Hospitals Still Use Website Tracking Technologies That Share Data with Third Parties—An analysis of the websites of non-federal acute care U.S. hospitals has confirmed that 96% of those websites use tracking technologies that share vis...
- + Epic Systems Shuts off Access for Certain Particle Health Customers Over Patient Privacy Concerns—The electronic health record provider Epic Systems has cut off access to data for a startup called Particle Health after alleging the firm was sharing...
- + FTC Fines Mental Health Company Cerebral $7.1 Million for Consumer Privacy Violations—The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined the mental health startup Cerebral $7.1 million for consumer privacy violations and deceptive trading pra...
- + HIPAA And Social Media Guidelines—The most important rule for any HIPAA and social media guidelines is that social media content must NEVER include protected health information (PHI). ...
- + Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Agrees $8 Million Settlement to Resolve Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit—The San Francisco, CA-based law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has agreed to a $8 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit filed ...
- + Ransomware Attacks Reported by 4 Healthcare Providers—Ransomware attacks have been reported by Canopy Children’s Solutions, the Sleep Management Institute, the Epilepsy Foundation of Metro New York,...
- + Email Incidents Reported by Randolph Health & Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School—Randolph Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have recently reported email incidents involving the unauthorized access/disclosure of ...
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