April 2022 Healthcare Breach Report
Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for [...]
500K Patients Affected by Adaptive Health Integrations Breach
Adaptive Health Integrations, based in North Dakota, reported an incident of unauthorized access to protected health information. There were potentially 510,574 patients affected in the massive breach. [...]
March 2022 Healthcare Breach Report
Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NY AG SHIELD UP! Vision Benefits Provider Settles Email Data Breach
In January of 2022, EyeMed Vision Care LLC, a New York vision benefits provider, settled an action brought by the New York State Attorney General against it [...]
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 [...]
Data Breach Lawsuit Filed After Theft of Nearly 320k Records
Electronic Health Record (EHR) services provider QRS Inc. is facing a data breach lawsuit following an August cyberattack that may have compromised the privacy of 319,778 patients. Background of [...]
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 [...]
