Two incidents of database misconfiguration caused data breaches that affected 90,000 patients. Health vendor Medico and Amarin Pharma’s databases were exposed to the public, risking patients’ protected health information [...]
Harbor Medical Group, a multi-clinic covered entity in Washington State, was the target of a ransomware attack on Saturday, June 15, 2019. Two days later, the [...]
An employee of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) lost an unencrypted laptop on public transportation. The laptop contained the protected health information (PHI) of [...]
HIPAA breaches have increased exponentially as health information is extremely valuable on the black market. It seems like there is a new data breach in the news every day, [...]
Data breaches can cost more than an organization would think. IBM Security’s annual study analyzed data breaches and the financial impact associated with them. It was [...]
Presbyterian Healthcare Services is the latest victim of phishing attacks in the healthcare industry. A healthcare phishing attack occurs when unauthorized access to an organization's network is gained by [...]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates safeguards to be in place to secure protected health information (PHI). PHI is any individually identifying health information such as [...]
Implementing effective HIPAA cybersecurity measures is essential to safeguarding protected health information (PHI). However, according to a recent study conducted by Brigham Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, many [...]
The HIPAA data breach that won’t go away has claimed another victim. In June of 2019, business associate (BA) and vendor America Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), [...]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) dictates healthcare standards for how protected health information (PHI) is handled and safeguarded. The Department of Health and [...]
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