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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Gary Pritts | May 20, 2014 | HIPAA
A tax fraud gang appears to be targeting a large number of healthcare and senior living organizations that all use the same vendor for payroll and HR services. KrebsOnSecurity previously covered this gang’s criminal activity in April, when they encountered a...
by Gary Pritts | May 19, 2014 | HIPAA
On February 11, 2014, Centura Health, the nonprofit umbrella that owns Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colorado, experienced a phishing attack on employees that resulted in a breach of privacy that left the personal information of about 1,000 patients...
by Gary Pritts | May 16, 2014 | General News
On April 29, 2014, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule that proposes a new reimbursement system that increases payments to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC’s) by as much as $1.3 billion over the next 5 years. Medicare...
by Gary Pritts | May 15, 2014 | HIPAA
On May 2nd, Molina Healthcare alerted 5,261 former members of Molina Healthcare of New Mexico of a data breach that took place around March 18, 2014. A postcard mailing about the Health Insurance Marketplace was sent to these former members that contained their...
by Gary Pritts | May 14, 2014 | HIPAA
On March 31, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) finally provided details on what the next phase of its HIPAA audit program will look like. These are outlined in detail in their presentation (slides here) and also in this article written by Adam Greene and Rebecca...
