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Brockton Health Center breach exposes 6 years of medical records

Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) recently disclosed a data breach after detecting unusual activity on its computer network. The breach exposed patients’ protected health information (PHI), including medical diagnoses, treatment details,...

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PIH Health ransomware breach exposes 17M records

Hackers claim to have exfiltrated 17 million patient records in a ransomware attack on PIH Health.

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FBI warns of HiatusRAT malware threat

The FBI Cyber Division released a private industry notification on December 16, 2024, warning organizations discussing HiatusRAT1 scanning campaigns.

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HHS OCR and Delaware settle disability rights case

The HHS announced a resolution with the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services following a failure to meet their responsibilities towards...

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Rocky Mountain Gastroenterology notifies patients of data breach

The Colorado-based Gastroenterology center recently notified over 300,000 patients of a data breach.

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What is DevSecOps?

DevSecOps, or development, security, and operations revolves around integrating security practices into the entirety of the software development...

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Do the staff of the state attorney's office need to comply with HIPAA?

The staff of the state attorney's office are enforcers of HIPAA and have duties that may place their staff in contact with health data. To prevent...

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HIPAA compliance with tracking technologies

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets strict guidelines to protect patient information, including how tracking...

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What is Title II of HIPAA?

Title II of HIPAA is the Administrative Simplification provision, designed to improve the efficiency of healthcare systems by standardizing the...

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Federal government unveils updated cyber incident response plan

The federal government has proposed updates to the National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) to strengthen public-private partnerships and...

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The concept of breach vs. disclosure under HIPAA

Section 160.103 of the HIPAA Privacy Rule defines a disclosure as the release, transfer, provision of access to, or divulging of PHI outside the...

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The future of AI regulation

In December 2024, a bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence released a final report urging Congress to prioritize existing laws over...

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OCR report: Data breaches rise 8.4% in first half of 2024

From January to June 2024, 387 data breaches involving 500 or more records were reported to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), marking an 8.4%...

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