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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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 22, 2023 – The rapid growth of digital healthcare apps in the United States has brought both advantages and concerns regarding privacy and efficacy.
In response, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has invited…
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By Jill McKeon
May 22, 2023 – R&B Corporation of Virginia, also known as Credit Control Corporation (CCC), reported a data breach to the Maine Attorney General’s Office that impacted more than 286,000 individuals. CCC is…
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By Jill McKeon
May 18, 2023 – Vision insurer EyeMed Vision Care reached a $2.5 million settlement with the states of New Jersey, Oregon, and Florida, following a 2020 data breach that impacted 2.1 million individuals….
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 17, 2023 – The United States government offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian hacker accused of multiple ransomware attacks on US…
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By Jill McKeon
May 16, 2023 – The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled a HIPAA investigation with MedEvolve, an Arkansas-based business associate that provides revenue cycle management, practice management, and practice analytics software to…
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