5.1 Million Patients Affected August 2021 Healthcare Breaches
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) publicly posts breaches affecting 500 or more patients to their online breach portal, known [...]
OCR HIPAA Investigation Leads to 20th Right of Access Fine
On September 10, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the issuance of another right of access fine. The OCR HIPAA investigation [...]
New Healthcare Cybersecurity Threats Reported
As hackers become more sophisticated, it is important to keep up to date with new threats. There are two new threats that are concerning in that they are difficult [...]
How to Prevent Phishing Attacks in Healthcare
Malware and ransomware attacks have become more prevalent in recent times across all industries and market sectors. Large-scale attacks such as the ones perpetrated on Colonial Pipeline [...]
4.8 Million Patients Affected by 2021 July Healthcare Breaches
There were a staggering 4,774,165 patients affected by July’s 58 healthcare information breaches. The majority of these breaches were reported by healthcare providers, representing 65% of the total number [...]
Average Cost of Healthcare Data Breach $4.62 Million
Each year, IBM Security and Ponemon Institute publish their “Cost of a Data Breach Report” in which they assess the previous year’s data breaches. In the 2021 breach report, [...]
500K Patients Affected by Healthcare Data Breach
Orlando Family Physicians announced that it suffered a healthcare data breach, potentially exposing the protected health information (PHI) of 447,426 patients. In a statement posted on their website, OFP [...]
PHI Ransomware Attack Targets Law Firm
On July 16, 2021, the Campbell, Conroy & O’Neil law firm published a press release revealing that they had been targeted by a PHI ransomware attack in February 2021. [...]
1 Million Patients Affected by June 2021 Healthcare Breaches
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) publicly posts breaches affecting 500 or more patients on their online breach portal. Each month, we [...]
EHR HIPAA Violations: Employee Impermissible Access Undetected for 12 Years
Former healthcare worker was discovered to have been improperly accessing patient files through an EHR platform for 12 years. Over this time period they accessed 7,000 patients’ files without [...]
