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Hackers Increasingly Leveraging Threats to Patients to Pressure Health Organizations to Pay Ransom

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Cyberhackers—potentially frustrated by their limited ability to extort ransom from health care entities in attacks—have started extorting the patients themselves, threatening them with the release of information or...more

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Privacy Briefs: July 2023

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A former hospital worker in Arizona was sentenced to 54 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to two felony counts involving identity theft and health information disclosure. In the plea deal,...more

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Privacy Briefs: May 2023

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Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more

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Key Considerations for Health App Developers from the FTC

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If your company creates health-related apps, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has set out some key considerations: - Make accurate representations. Clearly explain how people’s information will be used and shared and then...more

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Cyber Attack Information Sharing will Bring Liability Protections to Companies

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On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Included in this must-pass federal funding legislation is the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, which represents the most significant federal...more

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Blog: Implications of the Cybersecurity Bill for the Health Care Industry

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On Tuesday the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). The House had passed a similar bill, the Protecting Cyber Networks Act, in April of this year. The Act comes in the wake of many large scale data...more

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