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Ransomware healthcare attacks should be a cause for concern for anyone working in healthcare. Ransomware attacks occur when an unauthorized party accesses an organization’s network, encrypting files until a [...]
NBC New York I-Team found multiple boxes containing patient records in the trash outside of an Upper East side office building. The patient files were found [...]
Magellan Health is a managed care provider based in Arizona. Recently, Magellan Health discovered that two of its subsidiaries suffered phishing attacks. The phishing attacks have [...]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was designed to protect individuals' health information. The HIPAA Privacy Rule ensures the protection of “individually identifiable health information” [...]
August was another month that saw several large healthcare breaches. There were a total of 44 August healthcare breaches reported to the Department of Health and [...]
Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an initiative. Under the initiative, OCR stated that a [...]
East Central Indiana School Trust (ECIST) is the latest victim of a healthcare phishing attack. A phishing attack occurs when a hacker sends an email, posing as a trusted [...]
An employee of Renown Health, the largest healthcare provider in Nevada, lost an unencrypted thumb drive containing the protected health information (PHI) of 27,004 patients, resulting [...]
In August of 2019, Mount Sinai Hospital, a part of the Mount Sinai Health System, began notifying approximately 33,000 patients that it has been impacted by the - American [...]
As Hurricane Dorian moves up the East Coast, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, has declared a public health emergency in Puerto [...]
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