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Alive Hospice, based in Tennessee, experienced a healthcare breach due to phishing emails. A phishing email occurs when a hacker disguises themselves as a trusted user, prompting recipients to [...]
Methodist Hospitals based in Indiana experienced a phishing attack that affected 68,039. Phishing attacks occur when hackers send an email disguising themselves as trusted entities, often prompting recipients to [...]
An August, 2019 report from the Beazley Group, a well-known Lloyd’s of London Risk Underwriter Participant, should put to rest the belief that Office for Civil [...]
Patient protected health information (PHI) is extremely sensitive, especially diagnostic information. On Friday, Philadelphia Department of Public Health was informed that the PHI of individuals diagnosed [...]
Covered entities (health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and healthcare providers who electronically transmit any health information in connection with a HIPAA related transaction) and business associates must comply with the [...]
What is the Emotet Trojan? The Emotet Trojan is malware that first emerged about five years ago, as a banking trojan. Since that time, the trojan [...]
Florida-based NCH Healthcare System recently fell victim to an email phishing attack, which allowed an unauthorized individual to gain access to certain NCH employee email accounts. NCH has [...]
Recently, healthcare provider Wood Ranch Medical’s computer system was breached by a ransomware attack. The ransomware attack resulted in the encryption of approximately 6,000 patients’ protected health information (PHI). [...]
Elite Dental Associates was issued a $10,000 HIPAA fine for disclosing the protected health information (PHI) of one of its’ patients while responding to a review on Yelp. The [...]
September healthcare breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) affected 1,928,433 individuals. The majority of the 33 reported September healthcare [...]
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