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Privacy Briefs: July 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 7/15/2024

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

Ep. 19 - What to Do When Your Business Associate Suffers a Ransomware Attack

Dentons on 6/10/2024

The healthcare industry remains a popular target for ransomware attacks. If you haven’t been impacted by a ransomware attack, it’s likely only a matter of time before someone you do business with or buy services from is...more

‘I Will Not Rest’; ‘I Am All In’: Remarkable Breach Hearing Sees Pledges by UHG CEO, Sen. Wyden

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/13/2024

United Healthcare Group (UHG) CEO Andrew Witty was in a board meeting on Feb. 21 when officials interrupted with the news that Change Healthcare—a clearinghouse UHG subsidiary Optum had purchased for $1.3 billion in October...more

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

Nelson Hardiman, LLP on 4/25/2024

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

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 4/22/2024

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

Change Healthcare Cyberattack Emphasizes Importance of Cybersecurity Readiness; Considerations for Hardening Your Cybersecurity...

Carlton Fields on 3/12/2024

As the health care industry continues reeling from the recent Change Healthcare ransomware attack that crippled large portions of the U.S. health care system, health care providers are naturally reminded of the importance of...more

Privacy Briefs: January 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/17/2024

New York has released proposed cybersecurity regulations for hospitals. The regulations, which were published in The State Register on Dec. 6 and will undergo a 60-day public comment period ending on Feb. 5, are designed to...more

Privacy Briefs: November 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/10/2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more

Privacy Briefs: September 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/12/2023

The number of data breaches affecting health care providers declined in the second half of 2022, consistent with a downward trend over the past two years, according to a report from cybersecurity firm Critical Insight. Total...more

Insights From The IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/5/2023

The annual Cost of a Data Breach Report (Report) published by IBM is reliably full of helpful cybersecurity data. This year is no different. After reviewing the Report, we pulled out some interesting data points. Of course,...more

Privacy Briefs: July 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 7/17/2023

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

Ransomware attack hits major healthcare system CommonSpirit Health

Harris Beach PLLC on 11/7/2022

A major healthcare system recently experienced a ransomware attack that affected patient care, showing once again the importance of hospitals and other healthcare facilities implementing comprehensive cybersecurity plans. ...more

Privacy Tip – Health Care Sector Continues to Be Hit with Ransomware

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 6/29/2022

According to the 2022 State of Ransomware Report issued recently by Sophos, it surveyed 5,600 IT professionals from 31 countries, including professionals in the health care sector. Those professionals in the health care...more

App-etite for Notification: FTC Says “Welcome to the Jungle” to Mobile Health App Developers in Policy Statement on Health Breach...

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP on 12/21/2021

Last week’s news that the Federal Trade Commission is taking steps to begin rulemaking on consumer privacy and artificial intelligence drew plenty of attention from privacy professionals, and suggests 2022 could be an...more

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles Data Breach Coincides with Spotlight on Roe v. Wade

Fox Rothschild LLP on 12/15/2021

According to this article, 2021 has been a “particularly dire year” for health care data breaches. So, it may not seem shocking that a hacker gained access to the protected health information of approximately 400,000...more

July 2019 Ranks Highest in History for Healthcare Data Breaches

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 9/6/2019

July 2019 was the worst month in history for health care data breaches, with a total of 50 breaches that affected a total of more than 500 records reported to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) according to HIPAA Journal. ...more

Phishing Attack Causes Breach at Southwest Washington Regional Surgery Center

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/16/2018

Phishing attacks continue to hit health care providers and experts say the attacks will become even more frequent in 2019. ...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/22/2018

This week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report that outlined cyber incidents that nine public companies had experienced, causing fraudulent losses totaling more than $100 million. The...more

OIG Announces New Multidisciplinary Cybersecurity Team

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/11/2018

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently announced the creation of a cybersecurity team focused on combating threats within the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), and within the health care industry. ...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2018 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/17/2018

We all remember Kronos—the malicious malware that was sold by Russian underground forums in 2014 for $7,000. If you bought it, you were promised updates and development of new modules. The Kronos developers recently released...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2018 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 7/16/2018

We have previously reported on the ongoing cybersecurity issues with St. Jude defibrillators [view related posts here, here, and here]. On June 29, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified the required firmware...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2018 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/9/2018

Cybersecurity Task Force Launched in Arizona - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey launched the Arizona Cybersecurity Team (ACT) by Executive Order on March 1, 2018. The ACT is comprised of 22 members representing officials from...more

Recent CyberSecurity Incidents Emphasize Importance of Cyberinsurance

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 10/28/2016

As the threat of cyberattacks continues to pose daily threats to businesses large and small, more companies have turned to cyber insurance products to shore up protection against these disruptive threats. A spate of recent...more

HHS Publishes New Guidance on HIPAA and Cloud Computing

Stinson LLP on 10/27/2016

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a new guidance regarding HIPAA compliance and the use of cloud computing solutions. The guidance is intended to assist covered entities...more

16 data breach class action lawsuits filed again 21st Century Oncology consolidated

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/13/2016

We previously reported that 21st Century Oncology suffered a data breach in October 2015 involving an intrusion into its systems which compromised around 2 million patients’ records, including their names, Social Security...more

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