April 4, 2016 Locky Ransomware Now Delivered Using Exploit Kits Locky Ransomware first emerged in February this year, yet it has already become one of the biggest ransomware threats. The cryptoransomware has now been used ... Read more
March 31, 2016 Locky and Samas Attacks Prompt US-CERT to Issue Ransomware Alert The spate of recent ransomware attacks on U.S. healthcare providers and businesses has prompted US-CERT to issue a warning about the destructive ransomware variants, Locky ... Read more
March 18, 2016 3.9 Million Dollar HIPAA Breach Settlement Announced by OCR The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced it has arrived at a settlement with the Feinstein Institute for ... Read more
March 5, 2016 21st Century Oncology Investigates 2.2 Million-Record Data Breach 21st Century Oncology, a Fort Myers, Florida-based healthcare provider specializing in cancer care, has announced that a hacker has gained access to the sensitive protected ... Read more
February 24, 2016 HHS Clarifies HIPAA Data Sharing Rules After seeking feedback from covered entities about aspects of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that are causing confusion, the U.S Department of Health ... Read more
February 18, 2016 HIPAA Rules on Website Testimonials: 25K Fine for Privacy Breach A physical therapy provider has reached a settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights to resolve HIPAA privacy violations ... Read more
February 16, 2016 Indicators of a Cyberattack Not Being Reported Quickly to Security Professionals IT professionals in the United States believe they are able to detect a cyberattack when it occurs thanks to the implementation of new cybersecurity technologies, ... Read more
January 27, 2016 Potential Centene Corp Data Breach Reported: Up to 950,000 Members Affected Another health insurer has potentially suffered a massive data breach that may have exposed the protected health information of up to 950,000 individuals. If confirmed, ... Read more
January 9, 2016 St. Louis Cardinals Hacking Scandal: Former Scouting Director Pleads Guilty There has been a new twist in the St. Louis Cardinals hacking scandal – A former scouting director has recently pleaded guilty to accessing Houston ... Read more
January 6, 2016 Cloudability Announces Acquisition of DataHero Over the course of the past 10 months Cloudability has been buying up small start ups to expand its footprint, bring talented software engineers into ... Read more
January 6, 2016 New Data Breach Notification Laws in California Effective On January 1, 2016, new data breach notification laws in California came into effect. All agencies doing business in the state of California must comply ... Read more
December 31, 2015 ProPublica HIPAA Helper Database Uncovers HIPAA Bad Boys ProPublica has launched a HIPAA compliance violation search engine to make it easier for consumers to find healthcare organizations that have violated patient privacy in ... Read more
December 23, 2015 Medical Informatics Data Breach Litigation Now Centralized Medical Informatics data breach litigation has now been moved and centralized. Medical Informatics data breach litigation was to be expected after such a major breach ... Read more
December 15, 2015 OCR HIPAA Settlement for a Phishing Attack University of Washington Medicine has agreed to an OCR HIPAA settlement for a phishing attack suffered in 2013. A financial penalty of $750,000 must be ... Read more
December 4, 2015 Triple-S Data Breach Settlement Reached with OCR This week, OCR announced a Triple-S data breach settlement was reached. The Puerto Rico health insurer will pay $3.5 million to OCR to settle potential ... Read more
November 27, 2015 HIPAA Business Associate Dispute Involves 2M-Record Breach A HIPAA Business Associate dispute is continuing between the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (THHSC) and its former Business Associate (BA), Xerox, over the ... Read more
November 11, 2015 Children’s Medical Clinics of East Texas Data Breach: 16K Potentially Affected Further information has been released on the Children’s Medical Clinics of East Texas data breach reported to the Office for Civil Rights late last month. ... Read more
November 3, 2015 Are IT Professionals Underestimating the Probability of a Cyberattack? Probability of A Cyberattack Being Suffered is Underestimated by IT Security Professionals New data released by the Ponemon Institute suggests that IT security professionals may ... Read more
October 16, 2015 Governor Brown Updates California Breach Notification Law Legislation covering data privacy & security in the state of California is stricter than most other states, and a new trio of bills amending California ... Read more
September 28, 2015 Barrington Orthopedic Specialists Data Breach Reported The Barrington Orthopedic Specialists data breach potentially exposes the Protected Health Information (PHI) of 1,009 patients. The Barrington Orthopedic Specialists data breach occurred when an ... Read more
September 23, 2015 1.5M Records Exposed in Systema Software Data Breach An error by a contractor has caused a Systema Software data breach that exposed the confidential data of upwards of 1.5 million individuals. Data exposed ... Read more
September 13, 2015 Oakland Family Services Data Breach Announced The Oakland Family Services data breach was caused by an individual employee responding to a phishing email, potentially exposing the PHI of 16,000 patients. The ... Read more
September 11, 2015 Data Breach at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Reported: 10 Million Records Exposed The PHI and PII of approximately 10 million individuals has been exposed in a data breach at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield in Western New York. During ... Read more
September 8, 2015 Microsoft Issues EHR Data Encryption Warning The effectiveness of EHR data encryption has been placed in doubt following the release of a research paper by Microsoft: A stern warning of data ... Read more
September 3, 2015 New Android Smartphone Data Security Warnings Issued An Android Smartphone data security warning has recently been issued by IBM’s X-Force Application Security Research Team. CheckPoint has also discovered Android security vulnerabilities which ... Read more
August 29, 2015 Social App Security Vulnerabilities Leaves VA Vulnerable to Cyberattacks The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has been warned that social app security vulnerabilities have potential to expose the data of veterans, according to a ... Read more
August 25, 2015 40% of Americans are Breach Victims, Says Leading Enterprise Cloud Security Provider A leading enterprise cloud security provider, iSherrif, has recently released a new analysis of data breach statistics which suggest that almost 45% of Americans have ... Read more
August 21, 2015 Summary of July 2015 Data Breaches Before February 2015, 2014 had been referred to as the year of the data breach, with a huge number of data breaches reported, and some ... Read more
August 18, 2015 SMS Text Message Hacking: A Worry for HIPAA Covered Entities This summer, two hackers successfully took control of a car – a Jeep Cherokee – by remotely hacking into its computer system and killing the ... Read more
August 14, 2015 How to Mitigate Liability in a Data Breach Lawsuit A class-action lawsuit is virtually guaranteed to be filed if a data breach is suffered that exposes healthcare data or Social Security numbers of patients ... Read more