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Hackers target Community Health Systems, steal personal data of 4.5M patients
Community Health Systems announced on Monday that outside hackers gained access to their network and stole the non-medical, personal information of 4.5 million...
Community Solutions hacked via Heartbleed Vulnerability
Since the initial report of the Community Health Solutions breach, in which attackers hacked into the CHS network to gain personal data of a whopping 4.5 million...
CryptoLocker Ransomware tamed by new free service
We’ve blogged previously about a nasty piece of ransomware called CryptoLocker, which gives its victims a difficult choice: Either pay the “ransom” ($400, although...
Russian hackers steal 1.2 Billion passwords in gigantic breach, says security firm
An August 5th report from Hold Security, a private security firm in Milwaukee, alleged that a Russian gang of hackers stole the personal data of more than half a...
HIPAA Violation Results in Criminal Indictment for East Texas Hospital Worker
A former employee of an East Texas Hospital is facing criminal charges for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known...
Meaningful Use Audits Evolve to Require Security Corrective Actions to be Complete
(Editor's Note: For the Stage 2 Rules effective 10/16/2015, the Privacy and Security Objective is now Objective #1) Eagle Consulting Partners is working with three...
Cyber Espionage Verizon Report sheds light on risk analysis process
Incidents of cyber-espionage have shown consistent, significant growth and display a wider variety of threat actions than any other pattern discovered in Verizon’s...
Deadline for updating grandfathered Business Associate Agreements Looms
The HIPAA Omnibus/Final Rule, published on January 25, 2013, grandfathered valid HIPAA Business Associate agreements prior to that date until September 22, 2014. That...
PHI of 400 found in street near Connecticut Health Exchange
AccessHealthCT, the health insurance exchange in Connecticut, announced that an employee of a contractor left a backpack containing the protected health information of...
U.S. DOJ indicts IRS Tax Fraud ring in Alabama
The U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments for a criminal ring involving individuals working at multiple facilities in Alabama. Other individuals in the...
Verizon 2014 Data Breach Investigation Report: Key findings on insider misuse and human error
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report categorized 63,000 security incidents from 95 countries into 9 categories of causes. For the healthcare organizations...
Mitigating Heartbleed’s lingering effects on networked medical devices
Many healthcare organizations remain unaware that the Heartbleed bug can affect more than just websites and web servers. The bug, discovered separately by Neel Mehta...
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