HIPAA Sample Breach Notification Letter: Who Must Be Notified?
Under HIPAA, when a breach of unsecured PHI takes place, the covered entity that sustains the breach must notify affected individuals of the breach. Notification must be [...]
What is a HIPAA Breach Notification Form?
You may have been hearing a lot about HIPAA breach notification reporting lately and for a good reason. The deadline to report small-scale breaches to the Department [...]
FTC Breach Notification Rule Expands for Health Applications
A recent policy statement by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has dramatically expanded coverage and penalties under the FTC Breach Notification Rule for companies that develop and offer mobile [...]
Don’t Miss the 2022 HIPAA Breach Notification Rule Deadline
Hopefully, you’ve been keeping a list of your minor breaches that occurred in 2021 because now is the time to report them to the Department of Health [...]
2021 HIPAA “Wall of Shame” Healthcare Data Breaches Up 7.5%
With at least six weeks before final numbers are in, the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website is reporting 713 major healthcare [...]
3.7 Million Affected By FlexBooker Breach
FlexBooker is an online appointment scheduling platform that services small businesses across several industries, including the healthcare industry. On December 23, 2021, FlexBooker disclosed that it had [...]
Broward Hospital Data Breach Nets Hackers 1,300,000 Records
An October 2021 cyberattack on Broward Health resulted in the extraction of up to 1.3 million pieces of protected health information (PHI) from the system’s computer network during the [...]
At Least 32 Providers Affected by Ciox Vendor Email Breach
Healthcare information management company Ciox announced they have begun notifying business associates following an employee email breach of protected health information (PHI) affecting the patients of at [...]
535,489 Patients’ Data Compromised in Texas ENT Breach
A hacker extracted the protected health information (PHI) of 535,489 patients from Texas ENT Specialists in August 2021. Although the Texas ENT breach occurred in August, it was not [...]
103,576 Impacted by Sound Generations Breach
A nonprofit organization in Washington state, Sound Generations, reported a pair of data breaches potentially impacting 103,576 clients to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) data breach [...]
