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$65,000 Right of Access Violation Settlement
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights recently announced its seventeenth settlement of an enforcement action under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. The Arbour, Inc., doing business as [...]
2021 February Healthcare Breaches Affected 1.2 Million Patients
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) publicly posts breaches affecting 500 or more patients to its breach portal. There were 45 incidents reported in February 2021 affecting [...]
HIPAA Prescription Theft: A Recipe for Jail
Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, healthcare workers face potential jail time for knowingly obtaining PHI without patient authorization. Recently, a New York cancer center nurse accessed patient records without authorization, to find patients who [...]
150,000 Security Cameras Accessed in Verkada Breach
A hacktivist group gained access to Verkada’s network, exposing vulnerabilities in their security practices. More details regarding the Verkada breach are discussed. Verkada Breach Exposes Video Surveillance of Healthcare Facilities On March 9, 2021, [...]
AMCA Settles 2019 PHI Breach With 41 State Attorneys General
In 2019, the American Medical Collection Agency discovered that it was the victim of a data breach. Not just any data breach, though; the breach was the largest healthcare breach reported in 2019. AMCA, [...]
Healthcare Ransomware Attack Affects 200K
Woodcreek Provider Services suffered a healthcare ransomware cyber attack affecting 200,000 patients. More details are discussed. Woodcreek Provider Services Healthcare Ransomware Attack Netgain Technology, a business associate of Woodcreek [...]
