By Sarai Rodriguez
June 06, 2023 – Acuity, which also operates under the name Comprehensive Health Services, reached a proposed settlement following a 2022 healthcare data breach that impacted nearly 106,910 individuals.
Acuity is a global solutions company that specializes…
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By Jill McKeon
June 05, 2023 – United States District Court Senior Judge James T. Moody sentenced Rico Prunty, a 41-year-old resident of Sierra Vista, Arizona, to 54 months in prison for a criminal HIPAA violation….
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 02, 2023 – With recent economic trends pointing toward a recession, companies are bracing for the downturn and slashing resources in anticipation of financial turmoil.
Yet, cybersecurity budgets remain resilient. A recent…
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By Jill McKeon
May 31, 2023 – Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers, an 89-bed hospital located 55 miles southwest of Chicago, disclosed that it has been investigating a cybersecurity incident. Morris Hospital recently detected unusual activity…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 31, 2023 – MCNA Dental, a Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program service provider suffered a major healthcare data breach impacting over 8.9 million individuals, revealing their Social Security numbers and personal…
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By Jill McKeon
May 30, 2023 – The American Hospital Association (AHA) urged the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to reconsider its December 2022 Online Tracking Guidance, suggesting that its definition of protected health information…
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By Jill McKeon
May 26, 2023 – Kentucky-based Norton Healthcare is responding to and recovering from a cyber incident that began on May 9 and led to longer phone wait times and delays in network-related capabilities….
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By Jill McKeon
May 25, 2023 – New York Attorney General Letitia James fined practice management vendor Practicefirst $550,000 to resolve data security failures stemming from a 2020 data breach that impacted 1.2 million individuals.
As previously…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 24, 2023 – Nearly 2 million patients were notified by Apria Healthcare about a healthcare data breach that dates back to April 2019, during which hackers infiltrated their computer systems and accessed personal…
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By Jill McKeon
May 24, 2023 – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), released…
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