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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: July 2024

Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System said it experienced a breach impacting more than 1.27 million patients when a former employee of vendor Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, accessed patient...more

Nelson Hardiman, LLP

Hacking and Healing: Nation-States, Cyber Attacks, and Healthcare Law

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Modern warfare is no longer restricted to physical battlefields and professional military. Countries like North Korea and Russia have few qualms about using cyberspace to reach well beyond their physical borders to target...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 12. Privacy Briefs: December 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 12 (December, 2021) - Huntington Hospital in New York has sent notices to approximately 13,000 patients about an incident that happened in late 2018 and early 2019 involving a night shift...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21 no. 9 (September, 2021) - DuPage Medical Group in Chicago said that the personal information of more than 600,000 patients may have been compromised in a July cyberattack. The medical group,...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Ransomware Warning for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory in light of...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Health Care Organizations Should Be on Guard Against Heightened Ransomware Threats

This week the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning of...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Trickbot or Treat: Heightened Cybersecurity Threats Unfold in Real Time

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It’s Halloween week, and things are getting scary. Our post from earlier this week proved eerily prescient when the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the...more

White and Williams LLP

Federal Advisory Warns Hospitals Facing “Increased and Imminent” Cyber Threat; 400 Hospitals Already Targeted

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A Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (the Advisory) by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has warned of an...more

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FBI Warns of Imminent Cybercrime Threat to U.S. Hospitals and Health Care Providers

In a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory issued Wednesday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Health and Human Services warned of an imminent ransomware...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Federal Agencies Partner to Warn Healthcare Systems of Imminent Cyber Threat

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US hospitals and healthcare systems should be on high alert after a rare joint advisory issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Health...more

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Immediate and Increasing Wave of Ransomware Attacks Hit Health Care Providers

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The Federal government is warning that the threat of cybercrime, and especially ransomware, to US hospitals and healthcare providers has increased. The Federal government is warning of an “increased and ongoing cybercrime...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Kansas Heart Hospital pays ransom but attackers renege on their word

In a rare and twisted result, Kansas Heart Hospital was hit with a ransomware attack on May 18th, and made the decision to pay a “small amount” to the attackers in order to get its data back. Kansas Heart stated that no...more

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