Charles River Laboratories began notifying clients April 30 of a data breach that allowed an unauthorized third-party access to portions of its information systems.
Cybersecurity
Although the pressure is on to combat cyber-criminals, around 61 percent of information technology security experts have experienced a serious data breach at their employers, according to a McAfee report cited by TechRepublic.
Microsoft alerted users earlier this month of a data breach that allowed a hacker access to emails. The users who were affected seem to have one thing in common: cryptocurrency, according to Motherboard.
Anchorage-based University of Alaska is alerting individuals about a computer data breach that may have affected email accounts, according to the Daily News-Miner.
AltaMed Health Services Corp. has sent letters to 5,500 patients about a security breach that may have impacted their personal health information.
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Fines for HIPAA violations in which the affected party had no knowledge of nor culpability in the privacy breach will now be capped at $25,000, a fraction of the previous $1.5 million limit, according to a new notice of enforcement…
2018 saw the federal Office for Civil Rights issue a record-breaking $28 million in fines for HIPAA violations and, judging by how many hospitals, insurance providers, government health departments, nonprofits and more are already under investigation by the HHS, 2019…
As hospitals and health systems continue to build out "internet of things" devices and rely on legacy systems, they are becoming more vulnerable to cyberattacks. The solution? Artificial intelligence, according to Vectra's 2019 Spotlight Report on Healthcare.
Ontario, Calif.-based Centrelake Medical Group is alerting 197,661 patients that their personal health information may have been exposed because of a computer virus, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Weeks after Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health reported a phishing attack that exposed the personal health information of 12,000 patients the hospital has been slapped with a class-action lawsuit, according to Masslive.com.