September 6, 2020 MHealth App Developers and Cloud Services Providers have New Resources made Available by OCR The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has revealed that it has made [...]
August 9, 2020 Lack of Encryption & Other HIPAA Flaws Leads to $1m HIPAA Penalty The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has sanctioned a $1,040,000 HIPAA fine on Lifespan Health System [...]
July 6, 2020 CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens Break-ins Compromises PHI CVS Pharmacy is contacting some patients to inform them that some of their personal and protected health [...]
June 16, 2020 Two Recent Cyberattacks Result in $107,000 Stolen from Kentucky Employees’ Health Plan Members The Commonwealth of Kentucky Personnel Cabinet has revealed that two data breaches took place between late [...]
May 26, 2020 Californian Company Confirmed as HIPAA Compliant Compliancy Group has awarded Safe Partner Inc. HIPAA Compliance status following a test where the group was [...]
May 11, 2020 HIPAA Violations Lead to Employee Dismissals in Michigan & Illinois Two separate incidents where HIPAA has been violated have led to healthcare workers being fired from their [...]
May 8, 2020 Nigerian BEC Scammers Target Government Healthcare Agencies & COVID-19 Research Organizations Business email compromise actors working out of Nigeria have been targeting government healthcare agencies, [...]
May 5, 2020 OCR Issues Guidance in relation to Filming and Access to Healthcare Facilities The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released a directive for healthcare providers to follow which [...]
April 21, 2020 82% of Public-Facing Exchange Servers Remain Susceptible to Actively Exploited Critical Vulnerability On February Patch Tuesday, 2020, Microsoft made a patch available to address a critical vulnerability [...]
April 14, 2020 Hartford Healthcare and Saint Francis Ministries Suffer Phishing Attacks The Saint Francis Ministries health system has revealed that the email account of one of its staff members [...]