by Gary Pritts | Jun 9, 2014 | HIPAA
HHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released their annual report for the Fiscal Year 2013, which highlights statistical achievements from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigations and prosecutions nationwide. Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCU)... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jun 6, 2014 | HIPAA
In March, 2014 the OIG published details of a penetration test that they conducted on the Indian Health Service (IHS), to determine whether IHS network systems were susceptible to compromise by cyber attacks. In 2011, during a separate IT general controls audit of... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jun 4, 2014 | HIPAA
A computer in Montana’s Department of Public Health that stored large databases of employee and client personal information was accessed by unknown hacker (or hackers) through the Internet. The unauthorized intrusion was discovered earlier this month and the... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jun 1, 2014 | HIPAA
In what’s being called a “nationwide takedown” by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations, charges have been filed against 90 individuals who allegedly submitted over $260 Million in false claims to Medicare. The individuals charged with the fraud... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 23, 2014 | HIPAA
eBay has asked 150 million users worldwide to reset their passwords, after learning of a cyber-attack on a database including encrypted passwords and other user data. Initially, eBay provided few details about the actual attack, which is under investigation by the FBI... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 22, 2014 | HIPAA
Incidents of lost and stolen assets are amount the most common causes of data loss or exposure, as reported by data breach incidents analyzed in Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report. This recent study collected data on over 63,000 confirmed security... Read More
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