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The number of individuals affected by the data breach at American Medical Collections Agency (AMCA) continues [...]

Quest Diagnostics, one of the largest medical laboratory chains in the United States, has announced that [...]

April was a record-breaking month for healthcare data breaches. More data breaches were reported by [...]

A phishing attack on Baystate Health in Massachusetts has exposed the protected health information (PHI) of [...]

993 Ohio residents who are beneficiaries of Medicaid or have received services from the Ohio Department of [...]

An office computer used by Oregon Endodontic Group has been infected with malware, which may have allowed [...]

Main Line Endoscopy Centers, a network of outpatient endoscopy clinics in the Malvern, Media and Bala Cynwyd [...]

Sharp HealthCare and Sharp Grossmont Hospital have been accused of covertly recording videos in an area of [...]

A class action lawsuit that was filed on behalf of victims of a 2016 data breach at the National Board of [...]

A ransomware attack on Brookside ENT and Hearing Center located in Battle Creek prompted the Michigan [...]

DePaul is informing a number of its behavioral health program patients about the exposure of their protected [...]

Burrell Behavioral Health is informing 67,493 patients about the accidental exposure of their healthcare [...]

A class action lawsuit has been filed against UnityPoint Health over a data breach that exposed 16,429 [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights and the Texas Department of Aging and [...]

The dental insurance provider, Superior Dental Care, based in Centerville, Ohio, has discovered an [...]

UCLA Health has agreed to pay a $7.5 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed on [...]

Verity Health system encountered its third phishing attack in January 2019 in three months, which impacted [...]

ZOLL Medical Corporation, a medical device manufacturer and software developer in Pennsylvania, is informing [...]

February 2019 saw healthcare data breaches reported at a ate of more than one a day, as was the case in [...]

Three new ransomware attacks have recently been reported by healthcare companies and their business [...]

A Massachusetts business associate has reported a breach of the electronic protected health information [...]

Dozen of healthcare employees at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago have been terminated for snooping [...]

Covenant Care in Aliso Viejo, CA, a network of residential care and skilled nursing facilities, found that an [...]

Ms. Linda Sue Kalina, 61, of Butler, PA, a former employee of Tri Rivers Musculoskeletal (TRM) and Allegheny [...]

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System is informing patients that some of their protected health information [...]

After a quiet month in terms of healthcare data breaches, breach reports rose again to more normal levels [...]

California already has tough data breach notification laws, but there is a loophole which could soon be [...]

A list of 16,440 Kentucky Counseling Center (KCC) patients was stolen and shared with another person. The [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has agreed to settle a HIPAA [...]

The accidental removal of protections on a UW Medicine website server resulted in the protected health [...]

Sharecare Health Data Services (SHDS) provides secure healthcare records management services to healthcare [...]

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, Mississippi, is informing around 30,000 patients that unauthorized persons [...]

The AdventHealth Medical Group Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine in Tavares, Florida, previously called Lake [...]

The deadline for submitting 2018 data breach reports for breaches that have affected fewer than 500 [...]

Paperwork containing information on patients has been stolen from an Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City [...]

Pawnee County Memorial Hospital located in Pawnee City, Nebraska, is notifying 7,038 patients that a hacker [...]

A hacker accessed the email account of an employee of EyeSouth Partners and potentially viewed or acquired [...]

A ransomware attack on Dr. DeLuca Dr. Marciano & Associates, P.C., an eye care clinic located in [...]

Valley Professionals Community Health Center in Indiana has experienced a phishing attack that has resulted [...]

The Connecticut health insurer Aetna has agreed to pay a financial penalty of $935,000 to the California [...]

The Illinois Supreme Court has decided that state residents can file a lawsuit against a private entity when [...]

FABEN Obstetrics and Gynecology in Jacksonville, FL has suffered a ransomware attack which has resulted in [...]

Since October 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services’ office for civil Rights (OCR) has been [...]

A break-in at the offices of addiction treatment services provider Integrity House had potentially resulted [...]

A data breach at Critical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates (CCPSA) in Colorado has impacted over 23,300 [...]

In April 2018, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (ADHSS) discovered that malware had been [...]

All-Star Orthopaedics has notified patients of Las Colinas Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine in [...]

December was the second-best month of 2018 for healthcare data breaches with only 23 healthcare data breaches [...]

With the increasing number of data breaches impacting North Carolina residents in 2017, state representative [...]

Valley Hope Association has discovered that an unauthorized individual has gained access to an [...]

A doctor pleaded guilty to committing a criminal violation of HIPAA Rules for wrongfully disclosing the PHI [...]

Lebanon VA Medical Center based in Pennsylvania found out that the protected health information (PHI) of [...]

A new data breach notification law in Massachusetts was enacted on January 10, 2019. The new law was signed [...]

Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services, doing business as BenefitMall, has sent notifications to over [...]

Martin Gottesfeld, 34, of Somerville, MA, the hacker responsible for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) [...]

Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center in Memphis, MI, provides substance abuse treatment and care services for [...]

A healthcare data breach investigation revealed that failing to implement basic cybersecurity best practices [...]

A targeted phishing attack on Kent County Community Mental Health Authority, dba Network180, began on October [...]

Ben-Ora, Hansen, Vanesian Imaging Ltd, has announced that an unencrypted laptop computer used by a Solis [...]

A ransomware attack on a business associate of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has potentially compromised [...]

The Podiatric Offices of Bobby Yee experienced a ransomware attack on October 29, 2018. The attack resulted [...]

Family Physicians Group in Orlando has informed 8,400 patients that a phishing attack has allowed hackers to [...]

This post is a summary of the 2018 HIPAA fines and settlements that have been agreed with either the [...]

Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, MO has announced that an unauthorized person has gained access to an [...]

The Dental Center of Northwest Ohio located in Toledo, OH, has notified present and past patients that some [...]

Flowers Hospital in Dothan, AL has agreed to settle a class action data breach lawsuit that was filed against [...]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has advised around 15,000 customers that some of their private and [...]

This is a summary of the biggest healthcare data breaches of 2018. The healthcare data breaches referred to [...]

The San Diego School District has announced that a phishing attack resulted in the exposure of the private [...]

A lawsuit has been filed against LifeBridge Health over a breach of the protected health information (PHI) of [...]

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has fined McLean Hospital $75,000 for a data breach in 2015 that [...]

An 11-year legal case filed after a woman’s healthcare records were released to her ex-boyfriend has at [...]

In November, 34 healthcare data breaches were reported to OCR, which makes it the second worst month of 2018 [...]

Around 32,000 patients of the University of Vermont Health Network’s Elizabethtown Community Hospital have [...]

BJC HealthCare, a large not-for-profit healthcare network in the U.S., has discovered hackers uploaded [...]

Contra Costa Health Plan (CCHP) is sending notifications to patients to alert them that some of their [...]

Mind & Motion Developmental Centers of Georgia has discovered hackers installed malware and ransomware on [...]

The New Jersey state attorney general’s office has fined the health insurance company [...]

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, located in Frisco, TX, has learned about a potential compromise of [...]

The University of Maryland Medical System discovered on December 9, 2018, that an unauthorized person [...]

Redwood Eye Center Ransomware Attack IT Lighthouse, the managed service provider hosting the electronic [...]

This is a summary of healthcare ransomware attacks, security incidents and privacy breaches that have been [...]

Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s Western Regional Medical Center located in Bullhead City, AZ has [...]

Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta (GSOA) is notifying certain patients about the potential theft of [...]

East Ohio Regional Hospital (EORH) in Martins Ferry, OH and Ohio Valley Medical Center (OVMC) in Wheeling, WV [...]

The employees affected by a data breach at University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) took legal action [...]

Healthcare company Tandigm Health discovered a vulnerability on its website on September 25, 2018. The [...]

The healthcare industry is a target for hackers but while there have been many hacks and IT incidents, [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has settled potential HIPAA [...]

HIPAA Journal’s healthcare data breach report for October 2018 shows an increase in healthcare data [...]

Key Dental Group in Pembroke Pines, FL is notifying patients about a possible HIPAA violation that could [...]

FHN Healthcare, which manages FHN Memorial Hospital located in Freeport, IL and other family healthcare [...]

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital and Episcopal Health Services in New York have notified past and present [...]

A phishing attack on Southwest Washington Regional Surgery Center located in Vancouver, WA, resulted in the [...]

Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, NY, has informed 1,216 of its patients that a former hospital worker [...]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported last month that the HealthCare.gov website [...]

On July 29, 2018, May Eye Care Center, located in Hanover, PA, was attacked with ransomware. The ransomware [...]

Health First Inc., a health system with four hospitals based in Florida, experienced a hacking/IT incident [...]

Sergiu Jitcu of Saddle Brook, NJ was a former IT employee of Chilton Medical Center in New Jersey. He was [...]

The last three years have seen 955 major healthcare security breaches that resulted in the exposure and/or [...]