RyanCoyne
Ryan Coyne is a results-driven leader in the healthcare compliance industry, specializing in regulatory compliance, compliance training, and assisting healthcare organizations and business associates in achieving and maintaining compliance. With a deep knowledge of healthcare regulations and a keen understanding of the challenges faced by the industry, Ryan has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor and advocate for ethical and compliant practices in healthcare. Ryan has successfully advised and guided numerous healthcare organizations, business associates, and healthcare professionals on achieving and maintaining compliance with regulatory training requirements. Ryan's professional focus is using his in-depth expertise and leading a world class team of subject matter experts at ComplianceJunction in regulatory compliance to help organisations navigate the complex landscape of ensuring staff adhere to healthcare regulations. You can connect with Ryan via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryancoyne/ and follow on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryancoyne
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 8, 2026 | HIPAA News
General Physician, P.C. has agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve a class action lawsuit related to a 2024 cybersecurity incident that exposed patient information stored in its systems. Incident Timeline and Unauthorized Access The cybersecurity incident involved...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 8, 2026 | HIPAA News
Compassion Health Care has agreed to a class action settlement of up to $600,000 related to a cybersecurity incident identified on or around March 17, 2025 that involved unauthorized access to protected health information (PHI) of approximately 23,600 individuals....
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 1, 2026 | HIPAA News
QualDerm Partners has confirmed a data breach affecting 1,088,993 individuals following a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to its network environment. Incident Overview QualDerm Partners reported that it experienced a cybersecurity incident that...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 1, 2026 | HIPAA News
A proposed class action settlement has been reached in Rogers, et al., v. Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons, P.C. over a February 2023 data security incident affecting patients’ personal information, and the court-approved notice outlines monetary relief options...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 22, 2026 | HIPAA News
Sedgwick Government Solutions confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed an isolated file transfer system and that a ransomware group publicly claimed theft of data, triggering incident response actions. Incident Confirmation Sedgwick Government Solutions (SGS)...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 22, 2026 | HIPAA News
Top of the World Ranch Treatment Center (TWRTC) paid $103,000 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights to settled a potential HIPAA Security Rule violation and will implement required corrective actions. HIPAA Security Rule...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 15, 2026 | HIPAA News
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the Conduent Business Services data breach, which he stated could potentially be the largest healthcare data breach in United States history. Investigation Announcement Texas Attorney General Ken...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 15, 2026 | HIPAA News
McLaren Health Care has agreed to pay $14 million to settle class action litigation related to two ransomware attacks that occurred in 2023 and 2024 resulting in data breaches. Nature Of the Incidents McLaren Health Care encountered two ransomware attacks that...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 1, 2026 | HIPAA News
Alabama Cardiovascular Group has resolved a class-action data breach litigation as a result of a data security breach discovered on July 2, 2024. The investigators found out that an unauthorized third party got access to its system from June 6, 2024, to July 2, 2024,...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 1, 2026 | HIPAA News
HHS has applied the annual inflation adjustment to the civil monetary penalties for violations of the HIPAA Rules effective January 28, 2026, increasing the financial penalties for covered violations. HIPAA-certified entities also need to take note of these updates....
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 25, 2026 | HIPAA News
United Seating and Mobility, dba Numotion, decided to resolve a class action litigation associated with two data security incidents in 2024. The mobility equipment provider encountered an attack involving unauthorized access to the protected health information (PHI)...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 18, 2026 | HIPAA News
Fortune 1000 pharmacy services provider, PharMerica, decided to resolve a class action litigation associated with a hacking incident resulting in a data breach in 2023 that impacted 5.8 million people. Besides paying $5.2 million for costs and benefits, the company...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 11, 2026 | HIPAA News
Continuum Health Alliance, a health management and patient services provider based in Marlton, NJ, has decided to settle a combined class action litigation associated with a data breach in October 2023 that impacted over 377,000 patients of its customer, Consensus...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 28, 2025 | HIPAA News
VisionPoint Eye Center based in central Illinois agreed to settle a class action lawsuit associated with a data breach that happened on October 2024 affecting around 67,000 individuals. This eye treatment service provider confirmed that an unauthorized third party...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 21, 2025 | HIPAA News
Hypertension Nephrology Associates (HNA) located in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, decided to pay $625,000 to resolve a class action lawsuit associated with a January 2024 data breach. HNA discovered the unauthorized system access on February 6, 2024 after finding a...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 16, 2025 | Cybersecurity
We are pleased to announce the availability of our 2026 Comprehensive Cybersecurity Training for Healthcare Professionals online training course. This online course has been designed to meet the demands of the healthcare environment by going beyond regular information...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 14, 2025 | HIPAA News
Dermatology practice Brevard Skin and Cancer Center in Brevard, Florida, suffered a cyberattack that was first discovered on October 14, 2025. It took quick action to keep its systems secure. Third-party cybersecurity experts investigated the nature and magnitude of...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 7, 2025 | HIPAA News
Main Line Fertility Center, located in Pennsylvania, will pay individuals for the probable impermissible disclosure of their sensitive information to third parties through website monitoring technologies. Main Line Fertility Center used third-party tracking codes and...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 30, 2025 | HIPAA News
Precision Imaging Centers, based in Jacksonville, Florida, offers X-ray imaging, CT, MRI, PET, and ultrasound services. It faced a class action lawsuit arising from a cybersecurity incident discovered on November 2, 2022 and agreed to settle it. Hackers breached its...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 23, 2025 | HIPAA News
Florida’s Watson Clinic decided to resolve its class action litigation associated with a January 2024 data breach that affected 280,278 persons for $10,000,000. The threat actors stole sensitive data, which included digital images, and published it on the dark web....
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 21, 2025 | HIPAA Advice
Nurse HIPAA violation examples are not as widely reported as violations by HIPAA covered entities, yet they can have just as serious consequences for patients, employers, and nurses themselves. The reason why nurse HIPAA violation examples are not as widely reported...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 16, 2025 | HIPAA News
On October 22, 2023, First Choice Dental, which operates 12 dental clinics in Madison and Dane counties in Wisconsin, suffered a ransomware attack. The dental care provider agreed to settle the litigation arising from the data security incident. First Choice Dental...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 9, 2025 | HIPAA News
A group of mental health and addiction recovery treatment centers in Tampa, FL, reported a security breach involving unauthorized access to patient information. Oglethorpe provides management services to health centers, wellness facilities, and specialized hospitals...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 7, 2025 | HIPAA Advice
Universities that aim to train the leaders of tomorrow´s healthcare industry must do everything in their power to prepare their students for the many challenges that they will face during their educational and professional lives. Healthcare students are facing...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 2, 2025 | HIPAA News
NextGen Healthcare proposed a $19,375,000 settlement to take care of a combined class action lawsuit over a ransomware attack in 2023 that impacted over one million people. The electronic health records and practice management software company discovered the attack on...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 30, 2025 | HIPAA Advice
HIPAA training is important because it equips healthcare professionals and staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to ensure the protection of patients’ sensitive health information, comply with legal and regulatory requirements, mitigate the risk of data...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 26, 2025 | HIPAA News
Fraser Child and Family Center decided to pay $750,000 to resolve class action litigation involving a 2024 data breach. Fraser Child and Family Center is an autism, behavioral health, mental health, and disability services provider in Minnesota. From May 30, 2024 to...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 19, 2025 | HIPAA News
Orthopedics Rhode Island (Ortho RI) decided to settle a class action litigation over a 2024 ransomware attack for $2.9 million. Ortho RI discovered the ransomware attack on September 7, 2025 and started a forensic investigation, which confirmed unauthorized network...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 12, 2025 | HIPAA News
Reid Hospital & Health Care Services, Inc., also called Reid Health, in Richmond, Indiana, has decided to settle the class action lawsuit associated with the alleged use of Meta Pixel and other tracking tools on its webpage. Based on the Jane Doe v. Reid Health...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 5, 2025 | HIPAA News
Octapharma Plasma agreed to resolve litigation associated with its April 2024 ransomware attack and data security breach. Octapharma Plasma manages over 190 blood plasma donation centers across 35 states. On or about April 17, 2024, Octapharma noticed suspicious...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 21, 2025 | HIPAA News
Jefferson Healthcare decided to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging the disclosure of sensitive information to third parties without patient permission as a result of installing Meta Pixel and other tracking tools on its site. Jefferson Healthcare provides its...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 14, 2025 | HIPAA News
The U.S. Department of Justice detained a Ukrainian serial ransomware criminal who is believed to have been behind various ransomware operations. Volodymyr Viktorovich Tymoshchuk, using monikers Boba, deadforz farnetwork, and msfv, is claimed to have executed the...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 7, 2025 | HIPAA News
Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers decided to resolve a combined class action lawsuit that claimed negligence for not preventing a data breach in April 2023 that impacted 248,943 persons. The terms of the settlement agreement require Morris Hospital to create a...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 31, 2025 | HIPAA News
Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron, also known as Akron Children’s Hospital, has decided to resolve its class action lawsuit associated with the use of Meta Pixel and third-party analytics and tracking codes on its website. The healthcare provider allegedly...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 24, 2025 | HIPAA News
Mount Sinai Health System, New York City’s biggest hospital system, decided to pay $5.3 million to settle its web tracking lawsuit. Allegedly, the health system violated government and state regulations by disclosing the personal health data of users of its...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 17, 2025 | HIPAA News
The Trump Administration reported a new initiative focused on enhancing interoperability and the exchange of medical information, and has gathered pledges from top healthcare and tech companies to develop a foundation for a next-gen digital health environment that...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 10, 2025 | HIPAA News
Heart South Cardiovascular Group, a cardiac and vascular care provider in Clanton, Centreville, and Alabaster in central Alabama, has decided to resolve the lawsuit associated with a May 2024 data breach that impacted 20,577 individuals. Heart South Cardiovascular...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 3, 2025 | HIPAA News
Director Paula M. Stannard of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported the 18th HIPAA penalty of 2025. Syracuse ASC, also known as Specialty Surgery Center of Central New York, has agreed to pay a $250,000 financial...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 27, 2025 | HIPAA News
BJC Health System, dba BJC HealthCare, agreed to settle a lawsuit prompted by its use of tracking tools on its website. The healthcare organization will pay approximately $9.25 million to resolve the lawsuit and give class members corresponding cash payments....
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 20, 2025 | HIPAA News
A ransomware group known as Stormous claims to possess the stolen personal data and protected health information (PHI) of 600,000 North Country HealthCare patients. North Country HealthCare is a federally certified community health center that provides comprehensive...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 14, 2025 | HIPAA News
MarinHealth agreed to pay $3 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over installing the Meta Pixel tracking code on its website from 2019 to 2025. MarinHealth manages Marin Health Medical Center and several outpatient clinics located in Sonoma County and Marin...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 6, 2025 | HIPAA News
On June 30, 2025, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published in the Federal Register (90 FR 28336) a proposed rule to withdraw the part of the COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard that remains in effect. The COVID-19 Emergency Temporary...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 30, 2025 | HIPAA News
Behavioral health system Arisa Health in Arkansas consented to pay $1.9 million to resolve a class action lawsuit associated with a cyberattack in March 2024. Threat actors gained access to the Arisa Health system and stole the protected health information (PHI) of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 22, 2025 | HIPAA News
DICOM, Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, had a high-severity vulnerability discovered in its MicroDicom DICOM Viewer, which is a free software program used to view and manipulate DICOM medical images. A threat actor can exploit the vulnerability remotely...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 15, 2025 | HIPAA News
Three weeks after the Interlock ransomware attack on May 20, 2025, Kettering Health has affirmed the resumption of normal operations for important healthcare services. Kettering Health has been issuing frequent updates on the development being made to reestablish its...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 8, 2025 | HIPAA News
A MongoDB database that contains approximately 2.7 million patient records and 8.8 million consultation records was compromised on the internet. The database contained names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, chart IDs, billing data, email addresses, and language...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 1, 2025 | HIPAA News
Six more Nationwide Recovery Service (NRS) clients confirmed that the NRS data breach resulted in the theft of sensitive data. The list of new victims includes Smile Solutions of Goodlettsville The City of Chattanooga Duncan Regional Hospital MAK Anesthesia Swedish...
by Ryan Coyne | May 25, 2025 | HIPAA News
Kettering Health operates 120 outpatient facilities and 14 medical centers in western Ohio. On May 20, 2025, it encountered organization-wide technology downtime that impacted 14 medical centers and call center operations. The disturbance caused critical IT systems to...
by Ryan Coyne | May 18, 2025 | HIPAA News
Integrated health system known as Union Health System, based in Terre Haute, Indiana, manages two hospitals and a medical group, which were impacted by a security breach that occurred at Oracle Health and Cerner. Oracle Health sent notification letters to healthcare...
by Ryan Coyne | May 12, 2025 | HIPAA News
A Federal judge has given preliminary approval of a $20 million settlement to resolve a multidistrict lawsuit against the software company Fortra in association with a 2023 hacking incident that impacted the Fortra GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) solution. The...
by Ryan Coyne | May 4, 2025 | HIPAA News
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported the 6th financial penalty for 2025 involving alleged HIPAA Rules violation. Health care network PIH Health in California consented to resolve the HIPAA violations by paying $600,000 in financial penalty. In June 2019, a...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 27, 2025 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported its 7th HIPAA enforcement action as part of its HIPAA risk analysis enforcement initiative. The settlement of an alleged HIPAA risk analysis violation involved the Guam hospital...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 19, 2025 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a financial penalty to Northeast Radiology, P.C. for a HIPAA violation. This is the 4th financial penalty for HIPAA violation issued by OCR under the Trump administration and the...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 13, 2025 | HIPAA News
Sentara Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Florida, Virginia, and Northeastern North Carolina that notified 1,620 individuals concerning a likely insider breach affecting their electronic health records. Sentara Health’s Laboratory Services...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 6, 2025 | HIPAA News
SimonMed Imaging reported a cybersecurity incident at the beginning of this year where unauthorized individuals accessed patient information through one of its vendors. The radiology practice in Scottsdale, Arizona said that one vendor notified it on January 27, 2025...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 30, 2025 | HIPAA News
Sunflower Medical Group is dealing with a class action lawsuit because of a recent data breach affecting the protected health information (PHI) of about 221,000 present and past patients. Sunflower Medical Group’s private specialized medical center is located in...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 28, 2025 | HIPAA Advice
The HB-300 training requirements encompass comprehensive education and awareness programs designed to educate employees within Texas healthcare organizations about the intricacies of patient privacy laws, data security measures, proper handling of protected health...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 23, 2025 | HIPAA News
A woman from New York received a probation sentence averting imprisonment for a criminal violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). She is also required to pay restitution of approximately $13,000. On March 23, 2023, 53-year-old...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 23, 2025 | HIPAA News
Certified public accountancy company Legacy Professionals based in Illinois notified about 217,000 people concerning a security incident and data theft in April 2024. The company discovered suspicious activity in its computer system at the end of April and launched a...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 16, 2025 | HIPAA News
Home healthcare equipment and related services provider, Apria Healthcare based in Indianapolis decided to pay $6,400,000 to settle all claims filed by the 1,869,598 individuals affected by data breaches in 2019 and 2021. In April 2019, hackers accessed areas of its...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 9, 2025 | HIPAA News
Labor Union, UNITE HERE, based in New York has consented to paying $6 million to settle a combined class action lawsuit that claimed the group’s inability to carry out proper cybersecurity measures to safeguard the sensitive information it kept. On October 20,...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 2, 2025 | HIPAA News
The U.S. Department of Justice has made public the decision of Health Net Federal Services (HNFS) and Centene Corporation, its parent company, to pay a financial penalty of $11,253,400 to resolve the issues that HNFS has faked compliance certification with the...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 2, 2025 | HIPAA News
U.S. authorities have published an alert concerning the Ghost ransomware group based in China, which has executed ransomware attacks in about 70 countries on several industries such as healthcare, religious institutions, education, manufacturing, technology, and...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 23, 2025 | HIPAA News
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a financial penalty against Warby Parker, Inc. for noncompliance with the HIPAA Rules. This is the first financial penalty issued by OCR under the Trump administration....
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 22, 2025 | HIPAA News
March 1, 2025, is the last day for filing reports involving 2024 data breaches impacting less than 500 people to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). When breach reports are not filed on time, HIPAA-covered entities are considered non-compliant with the HIPAA...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 16, 2025 | HIPAA News
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit civil liberties organization, wrote to Attorneys General in Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, and Texas to ask for an investigation of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in their states concerning probable privacy violations...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 9, 2025 | Cybersecurity
The American Hospital Association (AHA) along with the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) released a cybersecurity alert concerning three vulnerabilities identified in the SimpleHelp Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software that are...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 2, 2025 | HIPAA News
SonicWall and Apple released patches for critical zero-day vulnerabilities found in their products. Covered entities using these products need to update their HIPAA training to include the implementation of patches or updating the firmware of impacted devices. Threat...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 26, 2025 | HIPAA News
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee in Knoxville questioning the lawfulness of the revised HIPAA Privacy Rule passed by the Department of Health and Human Services to reinforce...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 26, 2025 | HIPAA News
The Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in Texas discovered multiple agency workers who have violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The workers were found to have accessed the information of 61,000 people who acquired agency services with no legitimate work reason...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 17, 2025 | HIPAA News
Comparitech recently publicized a report that showed how much work ransomware groups have been doing. The groups attack networks, encrypt files, and then compel the victims to pay ransom. Comparitech’s analysts found 5,461 ransomware attacks successfully executed in...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 10, 2025 | HIPAA News
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reported its first HIPAA enforcement for 2025 to settle alleged HIPAA Rules violations. Electronic medical records and billing support services provider, Elgon Information Systems based in Massachusetts, paid an $80,000...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 5, 2025 | HIPAA News
A dental practice in Indianapolis has consented to pay the Office of the Indiana Attorney General (OIG) a $350,000 financial penalty to settle several alleged violations of national and state legislation associated with an unreported ransomware attack and data breach...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 4, 2025 | HIPAA News
Hypertension Nephrology Associates (HNA) based in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania made a decision to pay $625,000 to resolve a class action litigation that resulted from a data breach in January 2024. HNA discovered unauthorized system access on February 6, 2024 after...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 29, 2024 | HIPAA News
Addiction rehabilitation center American Addiction Centers, Inc. based in Brentwood, TN recently reported a cybersecurity incident that impacted 410,747 present and past patients whose protected health information (PHI) may have been stolen. The notification letter...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 28, 2024 | HIPAA News
In April 2024, the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) suffered an email phishing attack in which several employees were misled into sharing their credentials. The attacker accessed email accounts that included the public assistance account details of over...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 19, 2024 | HIPAA Advice
Members of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) health plan filed a class action lawsuit because of an email phishing attack that compromised their protected health information (PHI). An unauthorized third...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 13, 2024 | Cybersecurity
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability found in Cleo file-transfer software. Vulnerability CVE-2024-50623 is thought to be a patched vulnerability. In the past, it permits file uploads and downloads without restriction. Dangerous file types...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 30, 2024 | HIPAA News
A bipartisan bill presented in the Senate requires the Department of Health and Services (HHS) to revise the HIPAA rules to boost cybersecurity throughout the healthcare industry and offer funds to support healthcare organizations with low resources to follow...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 24, 2024 | Cybersecurity
Corvus released its 2024 Q3 Cyber Threat Report, which revealed that the number of ransomware attacks increased for Q3 of 2024 with 0.72% increase in the number of new victims added to data leak websites compared to the last quarter. In Q3 of 2024, Corvus found 1,257...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 22, 2024 | HIPAA News
The healthcare and public health sector (HPH) issued an alert about a continuing phishing campaign that uses the DocuSign e-signature software to impersonate popular companies. The target of the phishing campaign is to mislead company staff into allowing their billing...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 16, 2024 | HIPAA News
The Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month is celebrated this November. One month is devoted to increasing knowledge of why fortifying critical infrastructure security and resilience is important. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 10, 2024 | HIPAA News
Microsoft tracked a foreign threat actor called Midnight Blizzard (also known as APT29, Cozy Bear). It is performing a spear phishing campaign attacking companies in several sectors, such as academia, government, defense, information technology, non-governmental...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 3, 2024 | HIPAA News
Several Oracle products are affected by critical vulnerabilities that threat actors are exploiting. The security researchers who discovered the vulnerability named it The Miracle Exploit. This vulnerability affected all Oracle online systems and Oracle Fusion...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 27, 2024 | HIPAA News
Two men from Sudan were accused of their involvement in several cyberattacks on company networks, government organizations, and critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S. They were also connected to the attack on Cedars-Sinai Medical Center located in Los...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 26, 2024 | HIPAA News
Great Expressions Dental Centers decided to resolve a class action lawsuit arising from a 2023 data breach that affected the personal data and protected health information (PHI) of 1,925,397 people. Great Expressions Dental Centers based in Bloomfield Hills, MI, which...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 20, 2024 | HIPAA News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), and the Australian Federal...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 18, 2024 | HIPAA News
Gryphon Healthcare has reported a security incident wherein the files of approximately 400,000 people with protected health information (PHI) had been accessed by unauthorized individuals. Gryphon Healthcare based in Houston, TX is a revenue cycle, coding, HIPAA...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 13, 2024 | HIPAA News
Omni Family Health, a healthcare provider with centers across Kings, Kern, Fresno, and Tulare counties in California, has informed patients and staff about the potential theft of their protected health information (PHI) in a recent cyberattack. The organization...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 11, 2024 | HIPAA News
A global law enforcement campaign called Operation Cronos has led to the arrest of four people who are allegedly involved in LockBit ransomware attacks and the shutdown of nine servers tied to the LockBit ransomware network. These actions are included in the third...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 5, 2024 | HIPAA News
The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2024 report by Sophos revealed that ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations continue to rise, even as incidents in other industries have declined. Across all sectors, the percentage of organizations reporting a ransomware...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 29, 2024 | HIPAA News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported a data breach to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that affected 3,112,815 people. This breach, initially announced by CMS and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS)...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 27, 2024 | HIPAA News
CorrectCare Integrated Health LLC (CorrectCare) settled a class action lawsuit associated with a 2022 data breach impacting approximately 600,000 individuals. The court gave the final approval for the settlement that cost CorrectCare $6.49 million. Third-party...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 22, 2024 | HIPAA News
The lawsuit against IU Health and IU Health Associates filed by Attorney General Todd Rokita of Indiana related to violations of the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been dismissed. The case...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 20, 2024 | HIPAA News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a report detailing the findings from risk and vulnerability assessments (RVAs) conducted across various organizations, including state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) entities,...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 13, 2024 | HIPAA News
The Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are notifying approximately 947,000 people about the compromise of some of their protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 8, 2024 | HIPAA News
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took legal action against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Secretary Xavier Becerra, for the alleged legitimacy of a new HHS final rule about reproductive healthcare privacy. The rule, HIPAA Privacy Rule to...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 1, 2024 | HIPAA News
Software solutions provider Young Consulting (also known as Connexure) based in Atlanta services the employer stop-loss insurance industry. It recently encountered a BlackSuit ransomware attack that compromised the medical insurance data of 954,177 persons. The...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 31, 2024 | HIPAA News
Ransomware continues to be a threat in 2024, with recent reports about its persistence, profitability, and evolving tactics. Despite efforts by law enforcement to combat these cyberattacks, ransomware groups show no signs of retreating. A report by blockchain analysis...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 24, 2024 | HIPAA News
Humana has consented to resolve a lawsuit filed by a whistleblower concerning the submission of fraudulent bids by the health insurer to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Medicare Part D contracts between 2011 and 2017. The Medicare Part D...
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