A new report released by online security company Sophos indicates that victims of ransomware attacks have a greater chance of suffering additional attacks within the subsequent 12 months. The report states that the healthcare sector […]
Over 1,300 clients of Palomar Medical Center Escondido have been wanred that a nurse, previously employed by the group, accessed their medical records without permission while they were being treated at the health center. The […]
Health insurer Aetna has agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit taken by victims of a mailing mistaken that lead to the details of HIV medications prescribed to individuals being seen through the clear plastic […]
A recent University of Phoenix College of Health Professions survey shows that indicates registered nurses (RNs) are satisfied withtheir organization’s measures in place to stop data breaches occurring. The survey was conducted on 504 full […]
43,000 patients of West Virginia-based Coplin Health Systems have been advised that their PHI has possibly been exposed due to the theft of an unencrypted laptop computer from the vehicle of a member of staff. […]
Charles River Medical Associates, based in Framingham, MA-based, has discovered that one of its portable hard drives was missing, possibly affecting the PHI of almost 9,400 people Last November, the practice discovered that the device which […]
It has been discovered that an unauthorized person has gained access to parts of its Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSUCHS) computer network and potentially downloaded files holding billing information of Medicaid subscribers. […]
The Agency for Health Care Administration in Florida has found that an unauthorized individual obtained access to a single email account due to a member of staff beign tricked by phishing scam. The member of […]
1,128 patients’ protected health information has potentially been viewed after an unauthorized individual gained access to the Compassionate Care Hospice Las Vegas (CCHLV) network and server. The breach occurred on October 28, 2017, CCHLV was alerted that […]
The findings of an audit of the North Carolina State Medicaid agency by The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) have been published in a new report. The report indicates that […]
Kaiser Permanente has suffered a couple of security incidents which filed with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Overall, in excess of 5,000 people have been affected by the […]
It has been discovered that a former member of staff at SSM Health has been accessing the health records of patients without any valid work reason for doing so for roughly eight months. The former health […]
A former employee of Emory Healthcare (EHC) has been found to have obtained the protected health information of 24,000 EHC patients and shared the data to a Microsoft Office 365 OneDrive account, from where it […]
Longs Peak Family Practice (LPFP) in Colorado has found that an individual gained access to its systems and encrypted files using ransomware last November. The family and sports medicine practice based in Longmont CO, found […]
A cyberattack, causing unexpected downtime, has been discovered at The University of Rochester Medicine’s Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville, NY. The attack is thought to have started on Wednesday December 27 and has lead to […]
The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo has found that one of its staff members has been tricked by a phishing scam that possibly allowed the attacker to gain access to the protected health information […]
A Reno-based dental practice in has been hit by a ransomware attack that denied access to dental records and images for five days. The malicious software was installed, during a ransomware attack on October 30, […]
The protected health information of 1,750 patients of Austin Manual Therapy (AMT) may have been accessed and stolen by a criminal who gained access to the group’s system. A forensic review by a leading national […]
Patients of MidMichigan Medical Center (MMC) in Alpena have been warned of a potential breach of their health data. On November 18, a MMC cardiologist took patient files from the Alpena cardiology office without permission. […]
NYU Langone Health System has found that files that included a log of presurgical insurance authorizations, relating to around 2,000 patients, was mistakenly recycled by a cleaning company in October 2017. Data in the binder included […]
Two serious breaches of patients’ protected health information have been discoveredd in Texas and Pennsylvania. Email Account Compromised at Midland Memorial Hospital Midland Memorial Hospital has suffered a breach of a a number of patients’ protected […]
Many data breaches have been reported by HIPAA-covered entities, involving the loss or theft of physical records, in the past two months. In November, seven violations involving paper records were made known to the HHS’ Office […]
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services experienced, in April 2016, a data breach, and while alerts were sent to affected people and the DHS’ Office of Inspector General shortly after the breach was found, a breach […]
UNC Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center has discovered that one of its laptop computers has been stolen, exposing the protected health information of around 24,000 patients. The computer was obtained by unauthorized individuals in a […]
Two employees at Chicago’s Sinai Health System have had their email accounts compromised in a recent cyberattack. Sinai Health System reports that the phishing attack happened on October 2, and that it was quickly discovered […]
The New Jersey-based Hackensack Sleep and Pulmonary Center, experts in sleep disorders and pulmonary conditions and diseases, has suffered a ransomware attack that in the protected health information of certain clients being encrypted. The ransomware […]
Louisville, KY based Baptist Health has contacted 880 patients that some of their protected health information may have been obtained by by hackers. The PHI violation was found on October 3, 2017, when irregular activity […]
The Henry Ford Health System has started alerting almost 18,500 patients that some of their protected health information may have been been accessed by an unauthorized person. The breach was found on October 3, 2017 […]
The discovery has been made that the medical records of 769 patients of Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts have been accessed by an employee without any valid work reason. In accessing the medical details, the […]
A provider of mental health treatment and support services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Center for Health Care Services (CHCS), has foudn that documents containing the protected health information of patients have been […]
Paper files with information including names, Social Security details, and medical records, along with details of cancer diagnoses and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), have been found at a recycling center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The files […]
A breach of patients’ protected health information (PHI) at the UAB Medicine Viral Hepatitis Clinic in Birmingham, AL has been discovered. UAB Medicine uses flash drives to send data from its Fibroscan machine to another computer. […]
ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc., has revealed that some of its clients have been impacted by a security breach following the improper disposal of a device used to record customers’ signatures. The device was stolen from the […]
Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation Therapy (SMART) has made contact with 7,000 patients to advise them of a violation of their protected health information. The breach has have affected all patients whose information was captured while […]
Recently published, the second draft of the revised NIST Cybersecurity, Version 1.1 of the Framework, incorporates major changes to some of the current guidelines and many new additions. Version 1.0 of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework […]
A HIPAA Administrative Simplification Optimization Project Pilot is being operated by The Department of Health and Human Services is currently inviting volunteers to have compliance audits. The focus of the project is to streamline HIPAA […]
Cottage Health will pay $2 million to settle a number of HIPAA violations in relation to state and federal laws. The group, located in Santa Barbara, was reviewed by the California attorney general’s office due […]
A recent report carried out by the Ponemon Institute has emphasized current endpoint security trends, details the ever-present threat from ransomware, and shows that fileless malware cyberattacks are increasing. Annually, endpoint attacks cost the healthcare […]
It has been discovered that an unencrypted laptop has been stolen from one of the employees of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services of Colorado Springs . This is the second such theft incident to be […]
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has pleaded with the HHS to move forward on all recommendations for medical device security proposed by the Healthcare Cybersecurity Task Force, seeking quick action to be taken […]
An unencrypted laptop has been stolen from one of its employees in a theft, the second such incident to be discovered in the space of three months, at Rocky Mountain Health Care Services of Colorado […]
A phishing attack at the Medical College of Wisconsin has lead to the exposure of approximately 9,500 patients’ protected health information. The hackers gained access to the email accounts of staff member, which included a […]
The November 2017 healthcare Breach Barometer Report has been published by Protenus. Following an unusually particularly bad September, healthcare data breach incidents fell to more normal levels, with 37 breaches recorded during the month of […]
UPMC Susquehanna, a network of hospitals and health facilities in Williamsport, Wellsboro, and Muncy in Pennsylvania, has revealed that the protected health information of 1,200 patients has possibly been accessed by unauthorized people. Access to […]
Personally identifiable information of a limited number of insurance applicants has been exposed online, according to an announcement by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, dba Florida Blue. Florida Blue was made aware of […]
After a burglary at an off-site storage center in East Brunswick, NJ, Otolaryngology Associates of Central Jersey is making patients aware a breach of their protected health information. The thieves removed 13 boxes of paper […]
Amazon has revealed that new security measures have been added to its cloud server that will make it much more difficult for users to misconfigure their S3 buckets and mistakenly leave their data accessible. While […]
Patients of Cook County Health and Hospitals System, a health system comprising two hospitals and more than a dozen community health centers in Cook County Illinois, have been made aware of a breach of their […]
There was been a 305% increase in the number of records exposed in data breaches in the 2017 according to a data breach report from Risk Based Security (RBS), a provider of real time information and […]
In August 2017 malware was discovered to have been installed on one of the computer servers used by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany (CCDA) in its Glens Falls office, which served patients in Saratoga, Warren […]
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has introduced the ‘Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act)’ into the legislature in New York.it is hoped that Act will protect New Yorkers from unnecessary breaches […]
Two USB drives storing the protected health information of up to 2,000 veterans have been stolen from the Man-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA it has been reported. The two USB devices were being […]
It has recently been discovered that a former employee of the Texas Children’s Health Plan has recieved the protected health information (PHI) of 932 members in a private email. The last known incident where the […]
A new WannaCry ransomware variant has been used to attack FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a Pinehurst, SC-based not for profit health network. WannaCry ransomware was used in worldwide attacks earlier in May. Over 230,000 computers […]
The protected health information (PHI) of almost 8,000 client of Brevard Physician Associates may have been accessed following the theft of an office computer in a recent break in. The burglary happened on September 4, […]
A HIPAA Breach has been reported at lawnmower engine manufacturer Briggs Stratton which may have affected 12,789 of its employees and potentially resulted in the exposure of names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, […]
A former staff nurse, 41-year old Tangela Lawson-Brown from Midway, has been found guilty of wire fraud, stealing government funds, possession of unauthorized access devices and aggravated identity theft by a court in Tallahassee. She […]
The San Antonio, TX, Advanced Spine & Pain Center (ASPC) has advised clients of a possible breach that could have affected as many as 8,362 patients. ASPC became aware of a potential violation of ePHI […]
Over the weekend of August 12-13 an individual obtained access to a file server used by Ashland, MI-based Namaste Health Care and installed ransomware software encrypting data including patients’ protected health information. However, prior to […]
An unencrypted laptop device has been stolen from the automobile of an staff worker of Bassett Family Practice in Virginia, possible leading to the exposure of the protected health information of the Practice’s clients. It […]
Chase Brexton Health Care has reported that the group experienced a phishing cyber attack on August 2 and August 3, 2017 and may have affected as many as 16,562 patients. The cyber attack involved multiple phishing […]
Healthcare organizations often outsource many HIPAA transactions to third-party vendors, yet finding suitable companies that can provide the necessary services can be a time-consuming process. While there is unlikely to be a shortage of companies […]
RiverMend Health, a Augusta, GA-based specialty behavioral health provider has reported an unauthorized person has gained access to the email account of one of its employees after suspicious emails were identified being sent from that […]
A nurse, Dianna Hereford, who had her employment terminated following an alleged HIPAA violation at Norton Audubon Hospital has lost her appeal against the termination. The claimed HIPAA violation resulted in the termination of […]
Another unsecured Amazon S3 bucket used by a HIPAA-covered entity has been found by Kromtech Security. The unsecured bucket was storing contained 47.5GB of medical details relating to around 150,000 people. The medical details contained […]
The medical details of in excess of 10,000 patients of a Naperville, IL-based psychiatrist – Dr. Riaz Baber, M.D. – have been located in the basement of an Aurora residence by the female who rented […]
At the beginning of 2014 the HHS proposed a new rule for certification of compliance for health plans which would have required all controlling health plans (CHPs) to complete a range of documentation. This would […]
Amida Care, the New York-based not-for-profit community health plan, advised that a possible HIPAA breach may have occurred impacting up to 6,231 of its subscribers. The group provides health coverage and coordinated care to Medicaid […]
The U.S. House of Representatives has paased the Internet of Medical Things Resilience Partnership Act, aiming to put in place a public-private stakeholder partnership. This partnership will be charged with developing a cybersecurity framework that can […]
A fax machine used by a Doctor at Grand Rapids, MI, based Spectrum Health System was recently found to contain the PHI of almost 20 patients. The fax machine was bought from resale shop by […]
According to a recent study by MediaPro, a provider of privacy and security awareness training, best practices for privacy and security are still not well understood by 70% of U.S. employees. For the study, MediaPro questioned […]
Texas orthopedic clinic CoPilot are just now informing their patients that their protected health information may have been exposed in a 2015 CoPilot data breach. In October 2015, an online portal managed by CoPilot Provider […]
A settlement of $264,000 has been agreed with the Vermont Attorney Genera and SAManage USA in relation to the 2016 data breach that resulted in the Social Security numbers of 660 Vermont residents being exposed online. […]
A Catholic health system based in Vancouver, WA PeaceHealth, has revealed discovered that a former member of staff had accessed the medical history of almost 2,000 patients without any an adequate work reason. The unauthorized […]
Almost 4,000 people have potentially had their sensitive patient data exposed in Spokane, WA after a laptop computer once used by the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center (MGVAMC) has been reported as missing. The laptop device was paired with […]
Nebraska-based CBS Consolidated Inc., operating as Cornerstone Business & Management Solutions, completed a routine audit of system logs on July 10, 2017 and discovered a seemingly strange account on their servers. This case further highlights […]
A HIPAA violation at Mercy Health Love County Hospital may have exposed the private information of in excess pf 13,000 patients in Oklahoma. On June 23, 2017, the health centre found that a member of […]
Some healthcare organizations have violated patient privacy and HIPAA Rules when responding to negative critiques on Yelp and otherreview sites according to a recent ProPublica report. For the report, ProPublica was given with access to […]
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Omnibus Rule) was drafted in July 2010; however the final release has been put off until this month some of the concerns raised […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has just received a joint settlement of $1,975,220 for the potential breaches of HIPAA arising following the theft of a laptop storing […]
The Californian multi-specialty physician’s group, Imperial Valley Family Care Medical Group (IVFCMG), has recently been audited by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) following a potential breach of […]
Less than one month after Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reached a settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General for HIPAA violations after a laptop was stolen containing unencrypted PHI, Boston Children’s Hospital has been fined for […]
A security breach that has potentially impacted almost 13,000 patients has been announced by Hand & Upper Extremity Centers. The breach happened at Thousand Oaks, CA-based Hand Rehabilitation Specialists (HRS). While it is unclear when the […]
An review has been completed into a privacy violation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Bedford Memorial hospital, in a case which photographs and videos of a patient’s genitals were captured by hospital staff […]
Almost 70 patient files containing sensitive personal and medical data have been found in an alley in Denver, CO. The files include details of patients’ medical histories, insurance information, and Social Security numbers – The […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, earlier in 2017, settled a case with Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital to resolve alleged breaches of HIPAA following a 2014 impermissible disclosure of […]
In June 2014, hackers succeeded in accessing to a database controlled by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and the secured health information of 1.1 million of its members. The types of information exposed due to the hack included […]
Aetna is facing a class action lawsuit following a privacy breach that saw the HIV positive status of up to 12,000 individuals disclosed against the patients’ wishes. The individuals names and addresses were visible during […]
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule (45 CFR §§ 164.400-414) states that all covered entities must notify the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights of a breach of unsecured protected health information and issue notification letters to […]
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) is looking to improve its threat information sharing capabilities and provide more assistance to HIPAA covered entities to help them manage cyber threats more effectively. HITRUST is already providing […]
The Breach Barometer mid year reviews has been released by Protenus, in conjunction with Databreaches.net. This report covers all data privacy breaches reported in health care over the past 6 months. It provides valuable insights […]
The U.S. Senate has passed new legislation that will allow patients’ histories of drug addiction treatment to be shared with their physicians with consent. The legislation will help to ensure physicians can make more informed […]
Regulations governing the treatment of substance use disorder records and HIPAA are currently at odds, although new legislation has been proposed to align both sets of regulations. Representatives Tim Murphy and Earl Blumenauer have introduced […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has reminded HIPAA-covered entities why security awareness training for healthcare employees is so important in its July Cybersecurity Newsletter. PHI security is not only […]
Cases of staff members accessing on medical records are relatively common, although an incident at Tewksbury Hospital in Massachusetts stands out duration of time that an employee was accessing medical records without authorization before being […]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule allows patients to view the health information held by their providers. According to a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) release there is only a […]
In June 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it was considering updating its data breach portal – commonly referred to as the OCR ‘Wall of Shame’. Section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act […]
A Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota ransomware attack has potentially resulted in criminals gaining access to the protected health information (PHI) of 10,200 of its patients. Last year, OCR confirmed in its ransomware guidance that […]
For the second time this month, a healthcare provider has announced that an investigation into a ransomware attack has revealed a historic data breach. Earlier this month, Peachtree Neurological Clinic discovered a 15-month data breach […]
AHIMA, the American Healthcare Information Management Association, has announced it has developed a model HIPAA release form that can be used by HIPAA-covered entities to streamline the processing of requests for copies of patients’ health […]
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