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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Medical Devices, Cybersecurity & The False Claims Act: What are the Key Takeaways from the Illumina - DOJ Settlement?

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Illumina, Inc., a publicly-traded biotechnology company, agreed to a $9.8 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in response to alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA). DOJ alleged that Illumina...more

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Warning! ChatGPT Exploit Used by Threat Actors in Cyber Attacks

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Members of the health care and financial industries, along with other industries that hold sensitive data, are warned that a ChatGPT vulnerability is being actively exploited by threat actors to attack security flaws in AI...more

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Microsoft Report Highlights Attacks Against Healthcare Organizations

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On October 22, 2024, Microsoft issued a threat trend research report entitled “US Healthcare at risk: Strengthening resilience against ransomware attacks.” In it, Microsoft declares that ransomware attacks against the...more

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OCR Will Focus on You if You Don’t Focus on Cybersecurity

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With a couple of “firsts,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is signaling that it is cracking down on healthcare organizations that fail to identify and address cybersecurity...more

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Health Care Organizations Warned of Venus Ransomware

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The Health Care Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (IC3) recently released an Analyst’s Note to health care organizations providing information on a new variant of ransomware called Venus (also known as GOODGAME)....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2022

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Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. November 2022 - The second largest nonprofit hospital chain in the U.S. has been grappling with an Oct. 3 cybersecurity incident that affected facilities across the country,...more

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

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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

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ECRI Names Cybersecurity Attacks as Top Health Technology Hazard for 2022

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ECRI has been publishing its annual report of health technology hazards for the past 15 years. According to ECRI’s Device Evaluation group, “the Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list identifies the potential sources of danger...more

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No Breach, No Standing

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A federal judge recently held that mere allegations that a healthcare provider’s patient information portal failed to utilize sufficient security measures, without allegations of an actual breach, were insufficient to confer...more

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