Compliance News

A bipartisan coalition with 22 state attorneys general wrote to UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty about their concern regarding the...

Change Healthcare encountered an ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attack and spent $22 million as a ransom payment to stop the exposure of the...

The 2023 FBI Internet Crime Report revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) got high...

Patient Data Exposed Because of a Phishing Attack on UC San Diego Health UC San Diego Health recently sent a report to the California...

The ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware group's ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation appears to have ceased, suggesting there could be an...

Change Healthcare Responding to Cyberattack Healthcare billing and data systems provider, Change Healthcare based in Nashville, TN has...

A lot of U.S. employers have enforced a policy that necessitates their employees to be COVID-19 vaccinated, such as a few leading...

Sturdy Memorial Hospital based in Attleboro, MA is informing 57,379 patients concerning a computer security breach that transpired on...

Microsoft has uncovered a massive spear phishing campaign carried out by the Russian Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group associated...

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stated that it has gotten to a settlement with Peachstate...

The DarkSide ransomware gang has informed its affiliates regarding the shut down of its ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) activity. The...

Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County, a New York medical group practice, has made an announcement about the potential theft of...

Lawmakers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania want a data breach to be investigated. The case relates to the contact tracing information...

La Clinica de la Raza based in Oakland, CA is notifying a number of patients with regards to a likely compromise of their protected health...

Advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are targeting vulnerabilities in the Fortinet FortiOS operating system to obtain access to servers...

Mobile Anesthesiologists lately found out about the compromise of some patients’ protected health information (PHI) as a result of a...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in its March 17, 2021 Private Industry Notification notified state, local, tribal, and...

Ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector exploded in 2020. No less than 91 U.S. healthcare companies experienced ransomware attacks, 50...

Elara Caring, one of the United States' biggest home-based medical care services providers, has encountered a phishing attack that...

The protected health information (PHI) of 29,982 patients of Harvard Eye Associates located in Laguna Hills, CA was potentially stolen...

The court has granted preliminary approval of a settlement offered by 21st Century Oncology to solve a November 2020 class-action legal...

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has made an announcement that the protected health information (PHI) of around 36,000...

Europol reported that the infamous Emotet Botnet was taken down in connection with a multinational law enforcement operation. Law...

Roper St. Francis Healthcare has advised 189,761 patients regarding an unauthorized person who accessed some of their protected health...

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has reported that health insurance provider Excellus Health Plan has...

Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls, Minnesota is looking into a ransomware attack that was earliest noticed on December 22, 2020. The...

Agency for Community Treatment Services, Inc. (ACTS) in Tampa, FL is notifying a number of patients regarding the potential compromise of...

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a final...

A seasonal worker at a tech firm based in Virginia was sentenced to 42 months in prison for accessing patient files, stealing personally...

Mercy Health And Montefiore Medical Center have reported insider data breaches recently. In the two occurrences, an employee viewed...

Fairchild Medical Center located in Yreka, CA, started informing a number of patients about the likely access of their protected health...

Advanced Urgent Care of Florida Keys began sending breach notifications to patients on November 6, 2020 concerning a ransomware attack...

The US District Court in Massachusetts filed a legal action on behalf of the medical device supplier Zoll against its IT service vendor...

The number of entities submitting reports of being impacted by the Blackbaud cyberattack and security breach has increased in the past few...

CoreView published a new report revealing that a lot of Microsoft 365 admins haven’t activated multi-factor authentication to keep their...

LuxSci, a HIPAA-compliant email communications services provider located in Massachusetts, has publicized that it has obtained HITRUST CSF...

On October 2020 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft issued a patch to resolve a critical remove code execution vulnerability found in the Microsoft...

Legacy Community Health Services Phishing Attack Affects 228,000 Persons Legacy Community Health Services in Texas is notifying 228,009...

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has notified that firms that make ransom payments to hackers on...

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has required a $6.85 million HIPAA fine on Premera Blue Cross...

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights made an announcement regarding a settlement it has arrived at with Athens Orthopedic Clinic PA to take...

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights reported five settlements that resolved HIPAA violations related to...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has fairly recently given guidance for network defenders and incident response...

1,768 Persons Affected by Cook Children’s Medical Center Breach Cook Children’s Medical Center based in Fort Worth, TX discovered that a...

A new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet was found targeting SSH servers located in IoT devices and routers that allow connections from remote...

The 10-hospital integrated healthcare system called Northern Light Health Foundation, which is located in Brewer, ME, has reported that...

Beaumont Health, which is the leading healthcare organization in Michigan, began informing about 6,000 patients concerning the potential...

Highpoint Foot and Ankle Center based in New Britain Township, PA encountered a ransomware attack in May 2020 during which the attackers...

The radiology practice Quantum Imaging and Therapeutic Associates located in Pennsylvania made an announcement that they received reports...

Breaches at Central California Alliance for Health, Hutton & Hale, D.D.S., Inc. and Wisconsin Department of Corrections The Central...

Nearly 69,000 Persons Affected by Cyberattacks on Healthcare Fiscal Management and Friendship Community Care Healthcare Fiscal Management...

North Shore Pain Management (NSPM) based in Massachusetts started sending notifications to 12,472 patients because hackers potentially...

The United States Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Pennsylvania announced the arrest of a person who was accused of the breach...

Cano Health, a population health management firm and healthcare service provider located in Florida, reported that an unauthorized...

St Joseph Health System in North Central Indiana is notifying patients concerning the compromise of some of their protected health...

Cybercriminals are reforming their strategies, approaches, and processes throughout the COVID-19 health pandemic and are targeting work...

The IRS, DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of the Treasury published a joint notification to...

The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC)...

Rave Mobile Safety had published the results of its yearly survey of workplace safety and preparedness performed early this 2020. The...

Healthcare organizations' compliance with the HIPAA Right of Access has considerably improved, reported by the latest Ciitizen's Patient...

On March 13, 2020, ExecuPharm, a pharmaceutical company located in King of Prussia, PA, suffered a Maze ransomware attack with theft of...

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an alert to all businesses that utilize...

The Saint Francis Ministries health system announced that an unauthorized person gained access to the email account of an employee causing...