Data Breaches on the Rise
The Breach Barometer Report by Protenus for 2019 has been published, analyzing healthcare data breaches in 2018. The report exposed a major increase in healthcare data breaches last year. [...]
All of Records Erased, Doctor’s Office Closes After Ransomware Attack
Brookside ENT & Hearing Services has permanently shut its doors after a devastating malware incident destroyed all of its electronic medical records. It is apparently the [...]
Healthcare Vendor Triggers Ransomware Data Breach Affecting 600k
Ransomware healthcare data breaches continue to make headlines. Michigan officials have now stated that Wolverine Solutions Group, a Detroit-based billing service, experienced a ransomware healthcare data breach in fall [...]
New HIPAA Guidance on Ransomware Attacks and ePHI Security
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released new HIPAA guidance about how HIPAA-beholden entities can better equip themselves to deal with [...]
Congress to Establish Chief Information Security Officer Within HHS
A bill to establish an Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was introduced in the [...]
Ransomware and HIPAA: New Threats to Hospitals and Doctors
Ransomware and HIPAA: Over three months in 2016 five separate hospitals in the US and Canada were hit by a series of targeted ransomware attacks. The most serious of these [...]
