Compliance March 30, 2018 Clinical Pathology Laboratories Southeast Patients’ Have PHI Exposed Due to Theft of Unencrypted Laptop Clinical Pathology Laboratories Southeast, Inc., (CPLSE) has revealed that an unencrypted laptop computer issued to a member of staff has been stolen, exposing the protected ... Read more
Compliance March 28, 2018 35,000 Patients of ATI Physical Therapy Affect by Data Breach The protected health information of more than 35,000 patients of ATI Physical Therapy has has potentially been compromised by a cyber attack that occurred when ... Read more
Compliance March 26, 2018 Finger Lakes Health Computer System Grinds to Halt After Ransomware Attack A ransomware attack on Finger Lakes Health, based in Geneva, NY, has impacted the computer system to the extent that staff have had to work using ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 22, 2018 NH-ISAC Partnership with Anomali Boosts Threat Detection and Data Sharing The National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC) and Anomali have begun working together and will be providing threat intelligence to healthcare centers through ... Read more
Compliance March 20, 2018 1,049 Patients of RoxSan Pharmacy Notified of 2015 Email Breach 1,049 patients of Beverly Hills, CA-based RoxSan Pharmacy have been warned that some of their protected health information has been shared with a business associate ... Read more
Compliance March 20, 2018 Primary Health Care Experiences Multiple Email Hacks A non-profit network of community health centers in Des Moines, Marshalltown and Ames, IA, Primary Health Care Inc. has reported that hackers gained access to ... Read more
Security Breaches March 17, 2018 10,000 ShopRite Clients Have PHI Exposed to Improper Destruction of Device A Millville, New Jersey based ShopRite pharmacy has reported that an electronic device used to save the signatures of people has been destroyed without first ... Read more
Trends & Reports March 16, 2018 PHI of 5,300 Individuals Disclosed to Employees of QuadMed The protected health information of 5,305 patients of QuadMed, a Wisconsin-based provider of medical, laboratory, pharmacy, fitness, and physical therapy services, may have been impermissibly shared with ... Read more
Compliance March 16, 2018 33,420 BJC Healthcare Patients Have PHI Exposed in 8-Months HIPAA Breach BJC Healthcare has revealed that the protected health information of 33,420 of it’s subscribers has been open to public accessible for eight months without adequate for ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 12, 2018 Top Healthcare Security Threats Revealed in HIMSS Survey Results HIMSS has released the findings of its 2017 healthcare cybersecurity survey, which gives us valuable insights into the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare sector ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 1, 2018 Increase in W-2 Phishing Campaigns Leads to FBI Warning The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a new alert for businesses due to a major rise in phishing attacks attacking payroll worker. The ... Read more
Compliance February 28, 2018 Updated Common Rule Allows Research Institutions Another Six Months for Compliance Initially scheduled due to be introduced on January 19, 2018, amendments to the Common Rule – The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects have ... Read more
Security Breaches February 19, 2018 Triple-S Advantage Suffers Serious Data Breach with 36k Subscribers Impacted 36,000 plan members of Triple-S Advantage has experienced a privacy breach that has impacted. The breach was experience by the Puerto Rico based group when ... Read more
Compliance February 14, 2018 Decatur County General Hospital Malware Attack Exposes 24,000 Patient Records It has been has that Decatur County General Hospital in Tennessee suffered a malware attack after a virus was uploaded to a server housing its ... Read more
Compliance February 13, 2018 Ron’s Pharmacy Services’ Patients Receive Email Account Breach Alerts San Diego, CA-based Ron’s Pharmacy Services has found that an employee’s email account containing limited protected health information has been logged onto by an unknown ... Read more
Compliance February 9, 2018 May 2017 Partners HealthCare Breach May Have Affected 2,600 Clients 2,600 clients of Partners HealthCare System are being warned that some of their protected health information may have been compromised in a May 2017 breach. ... Read more
Security Breaches February 4, 2018 Online Breach Reporting Tool Launched in Massachusetts It has been announced, by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, that a new online data breach reporting tool it to be introduced to simplify the process ... Read more
Security Breaches February 2, 2018 Online Trust Alliance Reveals 2017 was Worst Year Ever for Cyber Attacks The Online Trust Alliance´s “Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report” has revealed that 2017 was the “worst year ever” for cybersecurity attacks. The organization believes ... Read more
Security Breaches January 31, 2018 Allscripts Facing Class Action Lawsuit Following Ransomware Attack Allscripts experienced a ransomware attack at centers in Raleigh and Charlotte, NC, resulting in several applications remaining offline for as many as 1,500 clients. Florida-based Surfside Non-Surgical Orthopedics. ... Read more
Security Breaches January 28, 2018 Breach Notification Bill Advanced by South Dakota Senate Attorney Judiciary Committee A vote in favor of introducing data breach notification legislation has been overwhelmingly passed by the South Dakota Senate Attorney Judiciary Committee. The bill advanced ... Read more
Trends & Reports January 22, 2018 Unauthorized Palomar Health Nurse Viewed Medical Records of Over 1,300 Patients A former nurse employed at Palomar Medical Center Escondido viewed, without authorization, the medical records of more than 1,300 patients who were receiving treatment at the ... Read more
Compliance January 17, 2018 Coplin Health Systems Patients’ PHI Possibly Compromised by Laptop Theft 43,000 patients of West Virginia-based Coplin Health Systems have been warned that their PHI may have been exposed following the theft of an unencrypted laptop ... Read more
Security Breaches January 9, 2018 North Carolina State Medicaid Agency Found to Have Data Security Inadequacies The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released the results of an audit of the North Carolina State Medicaid ... Read more
Tools & Practices January 8, 2018 Unauthorized Person May Have Accessed PHI of 1,128 CCHLV Patients It has been discovered that an unauthorized individual may have viewed the protected health information of 1,128 patients of Compassionate Care Hospice Las Vegas (CCHLV). During a ... Read more
Security Breaches January 6, 2018 5,000 Members of Kaiser Permanente Notified About Two Security Incidents Two security incidents have recently been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights by Kaiser Permanente. Combined, more than 5,000 ... Read more
Compliance January 5, 2018 Employee-Related Data Breach at SSM Health Affects 29,000 It has been discovered that a former worker at the St. Louis, MO-based not-for-profit health system, SSM Health was accessing the health records of clients for ... Read more
Security Breaches January 4, 2018 Sports Medicine Practice Hit by Two Hacking Attacks in 7 Days A hacker has gained access to its systems and encrypted files with ransomware at a family and sports medicine practice based in Colorado. Longs Peak ... Read more
Compliance January 2, 2018 Cyberattack Affects Internal Access to Jones Memorial Hospital Servers University of Rochester Medicine’s Jones Memorial Hospital, located in Wellsville, New York is currently dealing with a cyberattack that has inflicted some unexpected downtime on ... Read more
Security Breaches December 29, 2017 Access to Wager Evans Dental Records Prevented for 5 Days After Ransomware Attack Wager Evans Dental practice, based in Reno, NV, has experienced a ransomware attack that cut off access to dental records and images for five days ... Read more
Compliance December 27, 2017 Nebraska Ransomware Attacks Compromised PHI of Almost 10,000 Patients A ransomware attack that targeted Columbus Surgery Center, LLC and Eye Physicians, P.C., in Columbus, Nebraska has potentially exposedin the protected health information of almost ... Read more
