HIPAA Updates

44,600 Patients Affected by Ransomware Attack at Golden Heart Administrative Professionals

AK-based billing company, Golden Heart Administrative Professionals, a Fairbanks is alerting 44,600 people that some of their protected health information has potentially been obtained by unauthorized people due a recent ransomware attack. The ransomware was […]

HIPAA Updates

Potential Theft of 4,500 Patients’ PHI BY Former Arkansas Children’s Hospital Employee Being Reviewed

A former staff member of Arkansas Children’s Hospital is being investigated by law authorities in relation to the theft and misuse of patients’ protected health information. The breach notice submitted to the Department of Health […]

HIPAA Updates

Humana Reports Cyber Spoofing Attack

Humana is contacting members across the US to notify them that their PHI may have been been accessed during a ‘sophisticated’ spoofing campaign. A spoofing attack refers to a concerted effort by a threat actor […]

HIPAA Updates

HealthEquity Phishing Attack Exposes PHI

HealthEquity Inc. has been hit by a phishing attack leading to the exposure of members’ protected health information. The data breach was restricted to one email account, although a review of the messages in the […]

Cybersecurity

Healthcare Organizations Slow to Adopt DMARC

By implementing the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) Standard, healthcare organizations can identify and restrict email spoofing and abuse of their domains; however, relatively few healthcare groups are using DMARC for spam filtering, […]

HIPAA Updates

Release Form for HIPAA

If your organization is governed by some (Business Associates) or all (Covered Entities) of the Privacy Rule, it is necessary to obtain a valid release form for HIPAA compliance before Protected Health Information (PHI) is […]

HIPAA Updates

Minnesota Ransomware Attack Impacts Over 6,500 Patients

Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology (APP) a Rochester, Minnesota-based health organization has suffered a ransomware attack that targeted several computers that stored patients’ protected health data. The ransomware attack was identified on March 31, 2018. […]

HIPAA Updates

Potential PHI Compromise May Have Impacted 582,000 Patients of California Dept. of Developmental Services

582,174 patients of the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) is contacting customers to inform them that their protected health information has possibly been compromised. Last February 11, 2018, some people broke into the DDS […]

HIPAA Updates

Cambridge Health Alliance Suffers PHI Breach

Law enforcement agencies have notified Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) that the protected health information of some of its subscibers has been obtained by an unauthorized individual. Everett Massachusetts Police Department alerted, on January 31, 2018, […]

HIPAA Updates

Threat Detection and Information Sharing in Healthcare Strengthened by NH-ISAC Partnership with Anomali

Anomali has teamed up with the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC) and will be supplying threat intelligence to healthcare groups through NH-ISAC. Anomali will be supplying NH-ISAC with the necessary tools and […]