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Wolfe Eye Clinic, based in Iowa, suffered a cyberattack that gave hackers access to their patient files. The eye care cyberattack potentially affected 500,000 patients that had been treated [...]
In the span of a week, the U.S. Department of Justice closed two cases involving criminal HIPAA violations. One of these cases involved the violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, [...]
Every month we release a summary of the previous month’s healthcare breaches, and determine the leading cause behind that month’s breaches. In May 2021, there were 60 breaches reported, [...]
On May 28, 2021, Sturdy Memorial Hospital announced that it was targeted by a ransomware attack that compromised the protected health information of 57,400 patients. More details regarding the [...]
It was recently reported that the protected health information of 7,600 patients was exposed due to software programming errors. ZocDoc, a company that enables patients to self-schedule [...]
Since 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has brought a number of enforcement actions against healthcare providers for their failure to [...]
Each month, we review the breaches occurring in the previous month to determine what the leading cause of that month’s breaches are. April healthcare breaches affected 2,623,378 [...]
In 2008, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) organization published guidance as to how covered entities and business associates were expected to implement HIPAA Security Rule requirements. [...]
Recently, a healthcare class action lawsuit was filed against Einstein Healthcare. The lead plaintiff in the healthcare lawsuit is patient Nanette Katz. In August of 2020, Einstein was the [...]
On April 20, 2021, Elekta, a cancer software provider, was targeted by a healthcare ransomware attack. Through the attack, hackers were able to access Elekta’s cloud-based software, used to [...]
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