Settlement Reached in Hospital Data-Breach Case
The former parent company of Trumbull Regional and Northside medical centers has reached a settlement with the attorney generals of 28 states over cases related to a 2014 data breach…
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Michigan Medicine Notifies Patients of Email Information Breach
Michigan Medicine is notifying 1062 patients about an email that may have exposed their email addresses and health information to others.
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UHS Health System Ransomware Attack, Security Probed by Senator
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, sent a letter to Universal Health Services CEO Alan Miller, demanding answers into the health system’s cybersecurity policies in light of the September ransomware attack that…
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OCR Settles Ninth Investigation in HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces that it has settled its ninth enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of…
Read More »WV Attorney General Announces Settlement in Hospital Data Breach
WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has announced a $5 million, multi-state settlement with a leading hospital operator related to a data breach back in August of 2014.
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Former Mayo Clinic Employee Accessed Medical Records of 1,600 Patients without Authorization
Mayo Clinic has started notifying more than 1,600 patients that some of their protected health information has been viewed by a former employee without authorization.
Read More »OCR Settles Eighth Investigation in HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces that it has settled its eighth enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of…
Read More »Ransomware attacks increasing at an unprecedented rate — US now begging people not to pay ransom
Ransomware attacks — in which hackers take over an organizations’ computer systems and demand ransom payments to return them — have been on the rise for years and reached a…
Read More »Hospital Employee Sentenced to Months in Prison for Computer Intrusion
Richard Liriano was sentenced to 30 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to use malicious software programs, including a program known as a “keylogger,” on dozens of his…
Read More »CISA and MS-ISAC Release Ransomware Guide
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have released a joint Ransomware Guide that details practices that organizations should continuously engage…
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