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A Huntington man pled guilty to illegally accessing the medical records of six veterans, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.  Jeffrey Miller, 39, an employee of the Veterans Benefits Administration…

The computers systems of a large number of US dental offices were infected with ransomware on Monday, after a malware attack on the Digital Dental Record and PerCSoft’s cloud remote…

Massachusetts General Hospital is notifying nearly 10,000 people of a privacy breach involving its department of neurology.

Speculation that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcer, may be less active under the current administration has proven untrue.

A new report from Kaspersky finds employees of healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada are lacking cybersecurity education and awareness in three main areas including regulation, policy and training.

Approximately 5,500 patients of Michigan Medicine are being notified that some of their protected health information has been exposed in a recent phishing attack.

Renown Health is mailing breach notification letters to some patients after an employee in late June lost a thumb drive holding protected health information.

A married mother of four children who recently was left paralyzed from a tumor on her spine said a new law that allows cameras inside nursing home rooms is music…

Blood lab technician Elissa Mays claimed she was acting in the interest of efficiency when she asked a roomful of patients if any of them “were there for drug testing.”