Compliance December 21, 2017 1,750 Patients Affected by Potential Data Theft Incident at Austin Manual Therapy 1,750 patients have been notified that some of their protected health information may have been accessed and stolen by a criminal attacker who gained access ... Read more
Compliance December 21, 2017 1,900 MidMichigan Medical Center Patients’ PHI Found After Breach MidMichigan Medical Center (MMC) in Alpena has made contact with patients to advise them of a possible breach of their health information, which may have ... Read more
Compliance December 19, 2017 PHI of Almost 7,000 Patients Exposed in Two Separate Breaches A binder holding a log of presurgical insurance authorizations was accidentally recycled by a cleaning company contracted by NYU Langone Health System in October. The ... Read more
Security Breaches December 8, 2017 PHI Breach at UAB Medicine Leaves 652 Records Potentially Exposed In Birmingham, Alabama, the UAB Medicine Viral Hepatitis Clinic has discovered a breach of patients’ protected health information (PHI) that could have affected up to ... Read more
Security Breaches December 6, 2017 Personal Information of New York Pharmacy Customers Exposed in Improper Disposal Incident A security breach, involving the improper disposal of a device used to capture customers’ signatures, has been encountered by ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc. The device in question ... Read more
Security Breaches December 5, 2017 Extortion Attempt on Sports Medicine Provider Exposes Private Data of 7,000 Individuals Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation Therapy (SMART), based in Massachusetts, has contacting 7,000 clients regarding a breach of their protected private health information that occurred in September ... Read more
Compliance November 30, 2017 Rocky Mountain Health Care Services has Second Unencrypted Laptop Stolen An unencrypted laptop has been stolen from one of its employees of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services of Colorado Springs. This is the second such ... Read more
Compliance November 29, 2017 Medical College of Wisconsin Phishing Attack Affects 9,500 Patients The exposure of approximately 9,500 patients’ protected health information at the Medical College of Wisconsin has been caused by a phishing attack. The attackers were ... Read more
Trends & Reports November 27, 2017 Clinic Worker Who Stole PHI Jailed for Five Years A staff member at a clinic who stole the protected health information of mentally ill patients and sold the data to identity thieves for profit ... Read more
Compliance November 23, 2017 Suspected UPMC Susquehanna Phishing Attack Exposes 1,200 Patients’ PHI A network of hospitals and medical centers in Williamsport, Wellsboro and Muncy in Pennsylvania, called UPMC Susquehannam has revealed that the protected health information of ... Read more
Security Breaches November 21, 2017 Protenus November Breach Barometer Report Highlights Threat from Internal Breaches Following an unusually bad September, healthcare data breach incidents fell to more typical levels, with 37 breaches tracked in October according to the November 2017 ... Read more
Cyber Threats November 17, 2017 Contacts Stolen and Spear Phishing Emails Sent by Ursnif Trojan The financial sector banking Trojan Ursnif, one of the most commonly experienced banking Trojans, has before been used to attack banking institutions. However, it seems ... Read more
Compliance November 16, 2017 Alex Azar Nominated for HHS Secretary by President Trump Alex Azar, the former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is now the favorite to take over the reins from former ... Read more
Security Breaches November 14, 2017 2017 Data Breach Report Reveals 305% Annual Rise in Breached Records The Risk Based Security (RBS) 2017 data breach report has shown there has been a 305% surge in the number of records exposed in data ... Read more
Security Breaches November 10, 2017 CyberAttack Infection Found by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany The Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany (CCDA) was performing an upgrade of its computer security software during August when it found malware on ... Read more
Security Breaches November 8, 2017 NY AG Brings in Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) Aiming to protect New Yorkers from unwelcome breaches of their personal information, The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) has been ... Read more
Compliance November 3, 2017 New Variant of WannaCry Ransomware Detected in FirstHealth CyberAttack A new variant of the WannaCry ransomware has been detected in a cyber attack on FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a Pinehurst, SC-based not for profit ... Read more
Compliance October 31, 2017 Dental Offices and HIPAA Compliance: What Needs to Be Addressed? Dr. Joseph Beck became the first ever dentist to be receive a HIPAA violation fine in 2014. This alerted dental offices to HIPAA compliance and the ... Read more
Security Breaches October 29, 2017 Consolidated Inc. Data Breach Impacts 21,856 People Nebraska-based CBS Consolidated Inc., operating as Cornerstone Business & Management Solutions, completed a routine audit of system logs on July 10, 2017 and found an ... Read more
Security Breaches October 27, 2017 3,725 Veterans Have Their PHI Exposed Due to Missing Laptop A laptop computer, no longer in use, owned by the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center (MGVAMC) in Spokane, WA, has gone missing, potentially leading to the ... Read more
Security Breaches October 26, 2017 Data Breaches Drop For Second Consecutive Month The latest report of the Breach Barometer from Protenus/Databreaches.net Healthcare shows that data violations have dropped for the second consecutive month, according to . In ... Read more
Tools & Practices October 24, 2017 OIG: Multiple Security Weaknesses in Alabama’s Medicaid Management Information System The HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has completed an audit of Alabama’s Medicaid data and information systems to adetermine whether the state was in ... Read more
Compliance October 20, 2017 HHS Withdraws Proposed Rule for Health Plans Certification of Compliance A new rule for certification of compliance for health plans was proposed by the HHS In January 2014, requiring all controlling health plans (CHPs) to ... Read more
Compliance October 18, 2017 PHI of 10,500 Patients Found in Illinois Basement The medical history of more than 10,000 patients have been discovered in a basement in Aurora, Illinois. The documentation was located at the house, rented ... Read more
Compliance October 17, 2017 Medical Device Cybersecurity Emphasis for New AEHIS/ MDISS Partnership A new working relationship d between CHIME’s Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) and the Foundation for Innovation, Translation and Safety Science’s Medical ... Read more
Compliance October 16, 2017 51,000 Plan Subscribers Hit by Network Health Phishing Attack Network Health has advised 51,232 of its plan subscribers that some of their protected health information (PHI) has possibly been accessed by unauthorized people. In ... Read more
Tools & Practices October 13, 2017 Internet of Things Medical Resilience Partnership Act to Provide Direction on Devices The Internet of Medical Things Resilience Partnership Act, aimed at establishing public-private stakeholder partnership which will be tasked with developing a cybersecurity framework to prevent ... Read more
Trends & Reports October 10, 2017 Over Half of Cloud Storage Services are Misconfigured: Report A recent report by cloud threat defense firm RedLock claims more than half of businesses have made errors that have exposed sensitive data to the ... Read more
Compliance October 9, 2017 Hacking Group ‘The Dark Overlord’ Attacks Another Healthcare Organization After a seemingly prolonged period of inactivity, the hacking group TheDarkOverlord has revealed another attack on a U.S. healthcare supplier, Mass-based SMART Physical Therapy (SMART ... Read more
Cyber Threats October 9, 2017 Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany Discovers Long-Term Malware Infection Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany (CCDA) has discovered, during a software upgrade in August 2017, that malware was installed on one of the ... Read more
