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The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services announces its nineteenth settlement of an enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative….

Peachstate Health Management, LLC, doing business as AEON Clinical Laboratories (Peachstate), has agreed to pay $25,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and…

The FBI identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks targeting US healthcare and first responder networks, including law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, 9-1-1 dispatch centers, and municipalities within the…

A Michigan man pleaded guilty to hacking the human resources databases of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and stealing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of more than 65,000 UPMC employees….

Medical and personal information stolen from Ireland’s health service in a ransomware attack last week is now being shared online after the service refused to pay the demanded ransom.

The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) has been hit by a cyberattack, forcing the organization to shut down its IT systems as a precautionary measure.

Cybercriminals who specialize in ransomware have already been using double extortion tactics in which they not only decrypt stolen data, but also threaten to leak it publicly unless the ransom…

Network intrusion incidents have overtaken phishing as the leading cause of healthcare data security incidents, which had been the main cause of data breaches for the past 5 years.

The latest edition of the annual BakerHostetler Data Security Incident Response Report found that ransomware in 2020 continued to be a threat — and that many cases resulted in lawsuits.

Employees of a vendor paid to conduct COVID-19 contact tracing in Pennsylvania may have compromised the private information of at least 72,000 people, including their exposure status and their sexual…