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 [...]
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 [...]
Under the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, covered entities, following a breach of unsecured protected health information (PHI), must provide notification of the breach to affected individuals. HIPAA [...]
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), [...]
On May 13, 2019, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered the database for MedicareSupplement.com on the internet, and informed the company of the data breach. Although he never received a [...]
Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine is pushing to strengthen the data breach notification laws for D.C. residents. If protected health information (PHI) is released without their knowledge, [...]
Patients have filed suit against UCLA Health with a class-action settlement for $7.5 million after a data breach exposed their protected health information (PHI). UCLA first [...]
CoPilot Provider Services has reached a $130,000 settlement with New York state for delaying its HIPAA breach notification process. NY Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, determined that CoPilot unlawfully delayed [...]
The March 1st HIPAA breach report deadline is fast approaching. HIPAA regulation mandates that healthcare providers must report breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) to [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its first settlement for violating the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule with Presence Health for $475,000. [...]
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