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Privacy Briefs: May 2024

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

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more

Privacy Briefs: December 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 12/8/2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 12 (December, 2023) Northwell Health in New York and Cook County Health in Chicago each experienced impacts from a breach at Nevada-based transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 10. Privacy Briefs: October 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/11/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 10 (October, 2022) - Thirty Democratic senators led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have called on HHS to strengthen federal privacy protections under HIPAA to broadly restrict providers...more

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 12/13/2021

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

A Guide to Practical, Regulatory, and Reputational Risk Management

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/3/2021

Ransomware Particularly Inflicts Health Care and Life Sciences Organizations - Ransomware is a malicious cyber threat vector that employs encryption malware to prevent users from accessing their systems and data unless...more

Healthcare Systems Remain an Attractive Target for Ransomware Attacks

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 11/18/2020

Users of Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, recently lost access to electronic medical records when UHS suffered a ransomware attack and took its systems offline to...more

4 Ways to Protect ePHI Beyond HIPAA Compliance

NAVEX on 8/14/2020

Given the choice between credit card data and digital health records, cybercriminals prefer the latter. A stolen credit card can be canceled. Electronic protected health information (ePHI) with its treasure-trove of...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2017 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/27/2017

Energy and Critical Infrastructure Industries Warned of Increased Attacks by FBI and DHS - The FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a joint statement on October 20, 2017 warning of an increased danger of a...more

Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 14

Jones Day on 6/5/2017

New York Attorney General Announces Record Number of Data Breach Notices in 2016 - On March 21, 2017, the New York Attorney General's Office announced that it received 1,300 reported data breaches in 2016—a 60 percent...more

Purchasing Cyber Insurance? Important Considerations from the Recent Nossaman/ UCI Cyber Symposium

Nossaman LLP on 10/26/2015

On October 12, 2015, Nossaman and UC Irvine hosted a Cyber Symposium at the City Club in Los Angeles. The event included four panels of Nossaman lawyers, UCI professors, and private professionals who are experts in the areas...more

Getting More Personal: California Amends Data Security Law

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 7/30/2015

California’s data security statute will get a little more “personal” as of January 1, thanks to a recently-passed amendment revising the definition of covered personal information. On July 14 California expanded the...more

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