Recently, security researcher, Volodymyr Diachenko, discovered a healthcare database left available for public view. The healthcare database, containing the protected health information (PHI) of 3.1 million patients, was easily [...]
Recently, the improper use of GitHub led to a large-scale HIPAA security breach, leaving the protected health information (PHI) of 150,000 - 200,000 patients available through publicly [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) posts breaches affecting 500 or more patients to their online breach portal. The “wall of shame” [...]
As more organizations continue to work remotely, they are relying on texting and email as means of communication. For organizations that work in healthcare, it is important to determine [...]
The coronavirus has had a significant impact on many aspects of life. Many people have started to utilize technology they had not previously used for every day activities. This [...]
Lifespan Affiliated Covered Entity (“Lifespan ACE”) is a HIPAA-covered entity. This not-for-profit health system includes three academic teaching hospitals, a medical and mental health services hospital, and Rhode Island’s [...]
The rate at which healthcare entities are targeted by hackers has increased alarmingly over the course of the past several months. This is mostly due to [...]
On April 9 students from the University of Delaware contacted the Delaware Division of Developmental Disabilities Services (DDDS) regarding a research project. The students requested demographic [...]
Benefit Recovery Specialists Inc., a debt collection and billing vendor based in Houston, suffered a breach. The billing vendor breach affected 275,000 patients as the vendor [...]
In 2018, the MyFitnessPal app was hacked, affecting 150 million users. The hack exposed the login credentials for app users; a year later, it was discovered [...]
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