Former employee of GA medical packaging co. pleads guilty to disrupting PPE shipments
Christopher Dobbins has pleaded guilty to the charge of reckless damage to a protected computer for deleting and modifying his former employer’s electronic shipping and other business records. Dobbins’s former…
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Lawsuits after Ransomware Incidents: The Trend Continues
A lawsuit seeking damages as well as security mandates has been filed against a Florida-based orthopedic group in the wake of a ransomware incident.
Read More »Personal Information Exposed in NC Nursing Home Data Breach
Choice Health Management Services, which owns several nursing homes throughout the Carolinas, announced it was the victim of a data breach, which potentially exposed the personal information of several current…
Read More »Ransomware Gang Auctions off US Healthcare Data for Bitcoin
Crozer-Keystone Health System recently suffered a ransomware attack by the NetWalker ransomware gang.
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Hacker Arrested and Charged over 2014 UPMC Cyberattack
The United States Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Pennsylvania has announced that a suspect has been arrested and charged over the 2014 hacking of the human resources databases…
Read More »Breaches Reported by Hanger Clinic, Gateway Health, and Sunrise Treatment Center
Sunrise Treatment Center in Cincinnati, OH is alerting 3,660 patients that some of their protected health information may have been accessed by an unauthorized individual who gained access to the…
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Michigan Man Arrested for 2014 Hack of UPMC HR Databases and Theft of Employees’ Personal Information
Justin Sean Johnson, who allegedly hacked the human resource databases of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and stole PII of over 65,000 UPMC employees, was arrested Tuesday morning in Detroit,…
Read More »Data Breach Reported at New Mexico Healthcare Company
Presbyterian Healthcare is notifying thousands of patients about a data breach.
Read More »Ten Common Reasons for HIPAA Violations
In the past 12 months, there were 393 protected health information breach incidents reported to HHS.
Read More »OCR Issues Guidance on How Healthcare Providers Can Contact Former COVID-19 Patients about Blood and Plasma Donation Opportunities
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued guidance on how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)…
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