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3 Takeaways From Recent Cyberattacks On Healthcare Cos.

Troutman Pepper Locke on 9/4/2025

Significant data breaches have affected major players in the healthcare industry in the last year, with the methods of attack being as diverse as the affected entities themselves. Originally published in Law360 - June 4,...more

Privacy Briefs: October 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/16/2024

23andMe agreed to pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company of failing to protect the privacy of 6.9 million customers whose personal information...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

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

Joint Commission Issues Alert on Patient Safety After a Cyber-Attack

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 9/8/2023

On August 15, 2023, the Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert entitled “Preserving patient safety after a cyberattack,” which provides “tips on what organizations can do to prepare to deliver safe patient care in the...more

Privacy Briefs: May 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/12/2023

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

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/17/2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 1 (January 2023) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said a data breach at a Medicare subcontractor impacted the personally identifiable information and protected...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 22, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/13/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 9 (September, 2022) - More than 92% of patients believe privacy is a right and their health data should not be available for purchase, according to a survey from the American Medical...more

FDA’s New Draft Guidance on Cybersecurity

Gardner Law on 8/17/2022

The FDA has been continuing to work on protecting medical devices from the threats of cybersecurity. In April of this year, the Agency released the latest draft guidance addressing cybersecurity in the medical device...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 6/13/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 6 (June, 2022) - A report from the HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) found that in early 2022, ransomware groups increasingly turned to legitimate software during...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 3. Privacy Briefs: March 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 3/14/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - HHS said in early March that it was not aware of any specific threat to U.S. health care organizations stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “However, in the...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/18/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - New Jersey issued its third settlement in three months on state-level health care privacy and security laws, announcing that three cancer care providers would adopt new...more

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/15/2021

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

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 7. Privacy Briefs: July 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 7/12/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 7 (July, 2021) - Mayo Clinic is facing three lawsuits from patients who say a former surgery resident, Ahmad Alsughayer, viewed hundreds of their nude photographs in electronic health...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 4. Privacy Briefs: April 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 4/13/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 4 (April 2021) - A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data breach caused by a ransomware attack originating from Russia exposed the personal information of tens of...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/14/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 18, no. 1 (January 2021) - The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled its 13th enforcement action in its Right of Access Initiative, first announced in 2019 to support individuals’ rights to...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 7, September 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/4/2020

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, Hours Before It was Set to Start - "John Hall, an attorney for TikTok, said that the app, with some 100 million American users, is a 'modern day version of the town square' and shutting...more

Significant Increase in Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Industry – OCR Offers Guidance

McDermott Will & Schulte on 12/12/2019

Recent months have seen a wave of ransomware attacks in the US healthcare industry, many involving a sophisticated strain of malware called Ryuk. To protect themselves, healthcare providers should review OCR’s recent guidance...more

Healthcare Industry Reminded to Heed Cybersecurity: New “Industry Standard” Guidance

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/14/2019

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) observes that the US healthcare system lost $6.2 billion dollars as a result of data breaches in 2016 and that 4 out of 5 US physicians have experienced some form of...more

More Help for Health Care Organizations: HHS Releases Voluntary Cybersecurity Practices Developed with Industry Input

Baker Donelson on 1/3/2019

On Friday, December 28, 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released several documents, including the "Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP): Managing Threats and Protecting Patients," an...more

Data-Harvesting Zombie Hackers, Blood-Thirsty Auditors, and Other Reasons to be Scared on Halloween

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 10/30/2015

This Halloween, the scariest monsters might not be in your closet or under your bed. They may be overseas, orchestrating intrusions into your electronic medical record. Or they may be lurking in your own workforce, carrying...more

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