American Senior Communities Says 17,000 Employees Impacted by W-2 Scam
American Senior Communities, a nursing home chain based in central Indiana, has announced that one of its employees responded to a W-2 phishing email and sent the tax information of more than 17,000...
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Quarter of Americans Have Been Impacted by a Healthcare Data Breach
Given the volume of healthcare records that have been exposed or stolen over the past two years, it comes as little surprise that 26% of Americans believe their health data have been stolen. The...
View ArticleTheft, Hacking, Ransomware and Improper Accessing of ePHI – Attacks Coming...
Theft, hacking, ransomware, and improper ePHI access by employees – The past few days have seen a diverse range of healthcare data breaches reported. St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in...
View ArticleSimplified HITRUST CSF Program Helps Small Healthcare Organizations with...
HITRUST has announced that it has updated the HITRUST CSF and has also launched a new CSF initiative specifically for small healthcare organizations to help them improve their resilience against...
View ArticleAHIMA Published New Resource Confirming Patients PHI Access Rights under HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) permits patients to obtain a copy of their medical records in electronic or paper form. Last year, the Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleData Breach Lawsuit Against Excellus BCBS Survives Motion to Dismiss, in Part
A lawsuit filed by plaintiffs whose ePHI was exposed as a result of a cyberattack on Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has survived a motion to dismiss, in part. The United States District Court of the...
View ArticleHealthcare Employee Accessed ePHI Without Authorization for 5 Years
Healthcare professionals must have access to the protected health information of patients in order to provide medical care and perform healthcare operations. Since access to data can be abused by rogue...
View ArticleImproper Disposal of PHI Discovered by Minneapolis Heart Institute
A member of a cleaning crew at the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital accidentally disposed of documents containing PHI with regular trash. Minneapolis Heart Institute has...
View Article68% of Healthcare Organizations Have Compromised Email Accounts
Evolve IP has published the results of a new study that has revealed the extent to which healthcare email credentials are being compromised and sold on the dark web. The FBI has also recently warned...
View ArticleNew Mexico Data Breach Notification Bill Moves to Senate Judiciary Committee
A new data breach notification bill has been unanimously passed by the New Mexico House of Representatives bringing the legislation one step closer to being written into state law. The bill (House Bill...
View ArticleAlleged Social Media Retaliation by Doctor Breached HIPAA Privacy Rule
A physician at the Dr. O Medical and Wellness Center in San Antonio, Texas allegedly retaliated against a patient by posting a video of the individual clad only in underwear on Facebook and YouTube....
View ArticleSnapshot of Healthcare Data Breaches in February 2017
The Protenus Breach Barometer healthcare data breach report for February includes some good news. Healthcare data breaches have not risen month on month, with both January and February seeing 31 data...
View ArticleUNC Health Care Reports Exposure of 1300 Prenatal Patients’ PHI
Prenatal patients who visited certain obstetric clinics operated by UNC Health Care are being notified that some of their protected health information has been disclosed to local health departments by...
View ArticleFormer Employee Accused of Stealing PHI of up to 160,000 Med Center Health...
The Kentucky-based 6-hospital health system Med Center Health has reported a data breach affecting approximately 160,000 patients. Med Center Health believes a former employee may have stolen patients’...
View ArticlePatients’ PHI Accidentally Sent to Media Outlets by Mecklenburg County
A spreadsheet containing the protected health information of more than 1,200 patients has been accidentally sent to two media outlets by a worker at Mecklenburg County, NC. The spreadsheet was emailed...
View ArticleFBI Warns Healthcare Industry About Anonymous FTP Server Cyberattacks
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning to healthcare organizations using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers. Medical and dental organizations have been advised to ensure FTP servers...
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Dr. Donald Rucker Named New National Coordinator for Health IT
Dr. Donald Rucker has been named as the new National Coordinator of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology. Nether the...
View ArticleQuarter of Healthcare Organizations Do Not Encrypt Data Stored in the Cloud
A recent survey by HyTrust has revealed that a quarter of healthcare organizations do not use encryption to protect data at rest in the cloud, even though the lack of encryption potentially places...
View ArticleLarge Hospitals and Teaching-Focused Hospitals Face Greater Risk of Data...
A study recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine examined recent healthcare data breach trends to determine which types of hospitals are the most susceptible to data breaches. The researchers...
View Article918,000 Patients’ Sensitive Information Exposed Online
The data of 918,000 patients who provided their sensitive information to HealthNow Networks, a Boca Raton, FL-based telemarketing organization that used to provide medical supplies to seniors, has been...
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