Hundreds of Patient Files Found in NY Trash Causing HIPAA Violation
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 [...]
Phishing Attacks at Magellan Health Subsidiaries
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 [...]
OCR’s Strict Enforcement of HIPAA Laws on Healthcare Organizations
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” [...]
700,000 Patients Affected by August Healthcare Breaches
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 [...]
3,259 Employees Affected by Healthcare Phishing Attack
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 [...]
Lost Device Exposed 27,000 Patients’ PHI in Healthcare Breach
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 [...]
AMCA Data Breach Continues to Expose New Victims
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 [...]
122,000 Patients Affected by PHI Breach
Providence Health Plan, a dental program in Oregon, may have experienced a PHI breach that risked the protected health information (PHI) of 122,000 patients. The breach was a result [...]
July Healthcare Breaches Worst Month on Record
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began tracking data breaches in 2009. The HHS publishes meaningful breaches on their "wall of shame.” A meaningful breach affects 500 [...]
PHI Breaches Affect 9,466 Patients
PHI breaches happen for a number of reasons, whether from human error or phishing attacks, PHI breaches should be a cause for concern for anyone working [...]
