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 [...]
April 12, 2020 Andrews Braces Hack May Have Compromised PHI of 16,600 Patients The Sparks, NV orthodontics practice, Andrews Braces, has said that a ransomware attack took place on [...]