Massachusetts General Hospital data breach exposes 10,000 patients
Massachusetts General Hospital is notifying nearly 10,000 people of a privacy breach involving its department of neurology.
Beazley breach insights – August 2019
Speculation that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcer, may be less active under the current…
Nearly a Third of Healthcare Employees Never Received Cybersecurity Training
A new report from Kaspersky finds employees of healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada are lacking cybersecurity education and awareness in three main areas…
PHI Exposed in Phishing Attacks on Michigan Medicine and Virginia Gay Hospital
Approximately 5,500 patients of Michigan Medicine are being notified that some of their protected health information has been exposed in a recent phishing attack.
Employee’s loss of thumb drive imperils data at Nevada health provider
Renown Health is mailing breach notification letters to some patients after an employee in late June lost a thumb drive holding protected health information.
Louisiana: New Law Allows Cameras in Rrooms
A married mother of four children who recently was left paralyzed from a tumor on her spine said a new law that allows cameras inside…
Drug Test Question gets Lab Tech Fired
Blood lab technician Elissa Mays claimed she was acting in the interest of efficiency when she asked a roomful of patients if any of them…