Category: Compliance
Cary, NC Company Fined for Vermont Health Data Breach
Posted October 18, 2017 in HIPAA, Compliance, Data Breach
Vermont attorney general TJ Donovan has announced he will fine the Cary, North Carolina-based company SAManage USA...
Amazon Web Services Leak
Posted October 17, 2017 in HIPAA, Compliance, Data Breach
150,000 people in the US have been affected by the leak of an Amazon S3 repository exposing patient information. The...
New HIPAA Czar Says Small Providers Will Not Get Off Easy
Posted October 5, 2017 in HIPAA, Compliance, Data Breach
The OCR has a new enforcement czar, Roger Severino, and he’s out for blood. The chief of the agency that enforces...
Healthcare Breaches not a Fad
Posted September 6, 2017 in HIPAA, Data Breach, Malware
Since 2016, it has become increasingly obvious that cybercriminals have chosen healthcare providers as their prey of...
Social Media’s Growing Threat to Healthcare
Posted September 5, 2017 in HIPAA, Compliance, Data Breach
It seems like we can’t go a day without hearing about something on social media. Whether it’s a viral video or...
Experience a Hospital Cyberattack
Posted August 22, 2017 in Ransomware, Data Breach, Compliance
Stolen credit card data can go for up to 15¢. Stolen medical records can net anywhere from $30 to $500, and that's...
Ransomware Data Breach at Cleveland Medical Associates
Posted July 10, 2017 in Malware, HIPAA, Compliance, Data Breach, Ransomware
Cleveland Medical Associates was hit with ransomware back in April and has ordered identity protection service for...
Mistakes Will Happen, But They Don’t Have to Be Disasters
Posted July 6, 2017 in HIPAA, Compliance, Data Breach
Jason Pierre-Paul had it good. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the first round of the NFL draft and agreed...