Compliance May 22, 2020 Ransomware Attack Sees Data Stolen from Magellan Health Magellan Health, a Fortune 500 company, has revealed that it has suffered a ransomware attack during April that led to the encryption of files and ... Read more
Tools & Practices May 6, 2020 Tornado Hits Secure Medical Record Facility, Impacting Patients Medical Records Many hospitals have been impacted by a natural disaster that has affected Waupaca, WI-based STAT Informatics Solutions, LLC. STAT provides secure medical record services to ... Read more
Security Breaches May 3, 2020 Losses Caused by Data Breaches Lead to Shareholder Suing LabCorp A LabCorp shareholder has initiated a legal action against LabCorp and its executives and directors in relation the loss in share value following two cyberattacks ... Read more
Compliance April 20, 2020 14,795 Oncology Patients Impacted in Washington University School of Medicine Data Breach Washington University School of Medicine is getting in touch with 14,795 oncology patients to inform them that a portion of their protected health information may ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 15, 2020 Three Actively Exploited Flaws Patched by Microsoft On April 2020 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft made available updates to fix 113 flaws in its operating systems and software solutions, 19 of which have been ... Read more
Compliance April 14, 2020 Ransomware Attack on Andrews Braces Impacts PHI of 16,600 Patients The Sparks, NV orthodontics clinic, Andrews Braces, has suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in the encryption of patient data. The attack was discovered on ... Read more
Compliance April 13, 2020 Brandywine Urology Consultants Ransomware Attack Potentially Impacts Over 113,000 Patients Delaware medial practice Brandywine Urology Consultants has revealed that a ransomware attack on January 25, 2020 led to the encryption of files on its servers ... Read more
Compliance April 10, 2020 Healthcare Resource Group & Confido have PHI Exposed in Phishing Attacks The pharmacy benefits consulting group Confido has begun alerting 3,600 of its clients’ employees, members, and their dependents, that a portion of their personal information ... Read more
Tools & Practices April 4, 2020 PHI Disclosures for Public Health and Health Oversight Activities Allowed in Notice of Enforcement Discretion for Business Associates On April 2, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services revealed that with immediate effect, it will be applying enforcement discretion and will not ... Read more
Compliance April 2, 2020 Otis R. Bowen Center for Human Services Data Breach Impacts up to 35,800 Patients The Otis R. Bowen Center for Human Services, an Indiana-based supplier of mental health and addiction recovery healthcare services, has revealed that unauthorized actors have ... Read more
Security Breaches March 28, 2020 Multiple Data Breaches Reported There has been a number of healthcare data breaches made known to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) during the past few weeks. AffordaCare ... Read more
Compliance March 25, 2020 Data Breaches Reported at LifeSprk & University of Utah Health LifeSprk is making contact with 9,000 of its account holders to inform them that a a limited amount of their protected health information may have ... Read more
Security Breaches March 24, 2020 COVID19 Pandemic Leads to Massive Increase in WHO Cyberattacks It has been revealed that the World Health Organization has suffered a surge in the number of hacking attempts on its databases in the last ... Read more
Security Breaches March 9, 2020 Email Security Breaches at Relation Insurance & Rainbow Hospice Care Relational Insurance Inc., an insurance brokerage company operating as Relation Insurance Services of Georgia (RISG), suffered an email security breach in August 2019. An unauthorized ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 6, 2020 Vulnerability in Walgreens Mobile App Secure Messaging Feature Made PHI Accessible Walgreens has started contacting customers to make them aware that a portion of their protected health information may have been accessed by unauthorized individual due ... Read more
Security Breaches March 3, 2020 Final Approval Given for Quest Diagnostics 2016 Data Breach Settlement A federal judge has given final approval to a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed against the New Jersey-based medical laboratory firm, Quest Diagnostics ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 2, 2020 First HIPAA Penalty of 2020 Announced by HHS’ Office for Civil Rights The first HIPAA penalty of 2020 has been announced by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and has been ... Read more
Compliance February 24, 2020 Physician Network Affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital Impacted by Malware Attack On Monday, February 10, 2020, Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s (PPOC), a physician group that works with Boston Children’s Hospital, suffered a malware attack that ... Read more
Compliance February 22, 2020 Manchester Ophthalmology & UnitedHealthcare Impacted by Data Breaches Manchester Ophthalmology in Connecticut has suffered a cyberattack in which the hackers may have gained access to patient data. The eye care supplier became aware ... Read more
Tools & Practices February 15, 2020 Partially Completed Prescriptions of Schedule II Drugs Must be Tracked: HHS The Department of Health and Human Services has released a final rule changing the HIPAA National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) D.0 Telecommunication Standard ... Read more
Compliance February 6, 2020 Phoenix Children’s Hospital & New York Nursing Center Impacted by Phishing Incident A business email compromise (BEC) attack has impacted Village Center for Care dba VillageCare Rehabilitative and Nursing Center (VRNC) and Village Senior Services Corporation dba ... Read more
Cyber Threats February 3, 2020 30,000 Patients Affected After Malware Corrupts Medical Records On November 21, 2019, Fondren Orthopedic Group, an association of private orthopedic surgery practitioners located in Houston and the surrounding areas, were hit by a ... Read more
Compliance January 20, 2020 Florida and Texas Healthcare Providers Report Ransomware Attacks One of the most recent developments in the world of cyber crime to the tactic of threat actors to deploy ransomware to encrypt files to ... Read more
Cyber Threats January 16, 2020 DHS: Citrix Vulnerability Being Exploited Still The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an alert in relation to a recently discovered flaw in the Citrix ... Read more
Compliance January 13, 2020 Phishing Attack Leads to Second Lawsuit Against Kalispell Regional Healthcare A second lawsuit has been submitted against Kalispell Regional Healthcare in Montana in relation to a May 2019 phishing attack that resulted in the email ... Read more
Compliance January 3, 2020 Three-Year Insider Breach Discovered at North Ottawa Community Health System North Ottawa Community Health System (NOCH) has become aware that a staff member at North Ottawa Community Hospital in Grand Haven, MI, viewed the medical ... Read more
Tools & Practices December 20, 2019 Rep. Jayapal Questions Google & Alphabet Ascension Partnership Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington), a member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, has written to Google and Alphabet in relation ... Read more
Compliance December 13, 2019 The Cancer Center of Hawaii Delayed Radiation Therapy for Patients Due to Ransomware Attack A ransomware attack took place, on November 5, 2019, on the Cancer Center of Hawaii in Oahu. The attack meant that the Cancer Center to ... Read more
Compliance December 13, 2019 $85,000 HIPAA Right of Access Failures Results in Financial Penalty for Korunda Medical The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has revealed its second enforcement action as part of its HIPAA Right of Access ... Read more
Compliance December 12, 2019 80,000 Patients of Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Impacted in Ransomware Attack Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (SEMOMS) has made it public that a ransomware may have impacted the protected health information of almost 80,000 patients. ... Read more
