Home healthcare equipment firm Apria Healthcare is notifying nearly 1.9 million individuals of a hacking incident discovered in September 2021 that affected information dating back to mid-2019. The company says the breach was related to an attempt to fraudulently obtain funds from Apria.
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday made a few bold moves to ramp up its oversight of data privacy. They include issuing a notice of proposed amendments to its Health Breach Notification Rule and releasing a policy statement warning of heightened scrutiny over the use of biometric information.
Federal regulators fined a practice management software and services vendor $350,000 in the aftermath of an investigation into a 2018 HIPAA breach that involved a file transfer protocol server mishap. The company said the incident was the result of "a singular human error."
New bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate - the Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act - aims to help address the shortage of cybersecurity skills facing rural hospitals, which increasingly find themselves in the crosshairs of hackers, including ransomware attackers.
Organizations of all types have important work ahead to comply with Washington state's new My Health My Data Act, which pertains to any entity - inside or outside the state - that handles health data of consumers in the state, said Cat Kozlowski, attorney at law firm Polsinelli.
A rural Utah healthcare provider is notifying more than one hundred thousand individuals of a cybersecurity incident. Hackers may have accessed or stolen patient data of 103,974 patients who received care between March 2012 and last November.
A recently proposed federal rule would prohibit healthcare organizations from disclosing to law enforcement patient information related to obtaining or providing an abortion. If enacted, it will address longstanding loopholes in healthcare privacy, said attorney Kathleen McGee.
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Two separate proposed class action data privacy lawsuits involving the use of Meta Pixel tracking tools in healthcare entity websites are continuing to proceed with new legal developments this week in a Northern California federal court.
Most healthcare workers don't check security protocols before trying out new generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, putting patient and other sensitive data at risk, said Sean Kennedy of software vendor Salesforce, which recently conducted research on potential security gaps in healthcare settings.
Cloud-based electronic health records vendor NextGen Healthcare is notifying more than 1 million individuals of a data compromise involving stolen credentials. The data breach appears to be at least the second alleged data security incident the company has investigated since January.
As the cyberthreat and regulatory landscapes are evolving, so too are the data security and privacy priorities of healthcare sector entities, said Taylor Lehmann, director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, who explains how organizations can respond to the challenges.
A Tennessee medical clinic and surgery center is still struggling to fully recover two weeks after a "sophisticated criminal cyberattack" - which included an attempt to steal data - forced the entity to take its IT systems offline and cancel most patient services.
The tally of individuals whose sensitive information was compromised by the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnyWhere secure file transfer software is growing by millions as more entities report heath data breaches to regulators.
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