AMCA HIPAA Data Breach Claims Another Victim: Clinical Pathology Laboratories
The HIPAA data breach that won’t go away has claimed another victim. In June of 2019, business associate (BA) and vendor America Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), [...]
Double Trouble: Indiana Engineering Company Hit with Federal AND Multistate Data Breach Fines
Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. (MIE) is an Indiana-based company that develops and offers solutions enabling the exchange of electronic protected health information (ePHI). In May of [...]
Lack of Access Management Results in GDPR Fine
Similar to the United States’ HIPAA law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enacted in 2016, protects Europeans’ personal data. HIPAA and GDPR require many of [...]
Ransomware Attack on California Health and Wellness Center Leaves Up to 21,500 Exposed
California-based Shingle Springs Health and Wellness Center provides medical, behavioral, dental, and pharmaceutical services. On April 7, 2019, the center discovered that its server had become [...]
Email Phishing Scheme Results in Exposure of 15,000 Patients’ PHI
The personal health information (PHI) of up to 15,000 patients who received medical care through Los Angeles County’s hospitals and clinics was exposed in a March, 2019 phishing scheme. [...]
Unsecured Marketing Database Leaves 5 Million Exposed in Massive Breach
On May 13, 2019, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered the database for MedicareSupplement.com on the internet, and informed the company of the data breach. Although he never received a [...]
Settlement Reached with Premera Over Data Breach Exposing PHI of 10.4 Million
Premera Blue Cross signed an agreement with 30 states as a result of a 10-month hack that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of 10.4 million [...]
Ransomware Attack Affects 25,000
Ransomware attacks are cause for concern in the healthcare industry, the wealth of sensitive information, large budgets, and lack of proper safeguards, make the industry the perfect target for [...]
Federal Class Action Suit Filed Against UChicago and Google for Alleged HIPAA Violation
Matt Dinerstein, a former patient at the University of Chicago Medical Center, is accusing the University, its’ medical center, and Google of violating his privacy rights. [...]
Data Breach Lasting 7 Months Exposed the PHI of 501 Individuals
Communities Connected for Kids (CCK), a Florida-based organization that provides coordination and oversight of the child-welfare system, recently discovered a hack that lasted 7 months. In March 2019, one [...]
