Integrity House, a nonprofit substance use disorder treatment facility in Newark, N.J., is notifying 7,206 of its patients of a data security incident after a number of business computers and tablets were stolen from its offices in November.
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Apple is working to correct a bug in its FaceTime app that could allow callers to remotely tap into another user's microphone even if that user hasn't picked up the call, CNBC reports.
Verity Health System, a six-hospital system in Redwood City, Calif., is notifying an undisclosed number of individuals to a potential exposure of their protected health information stemming from three incidents.
Critical Care, Pulmonary and Sleep Associates in Lakewood, Colo., notified 23,377 patients about a potential exposure of their protected health information after an unauthorized individual gained access to an employee's email account.
Officials at the Delaware Department of Insurance said five health insurers and about 650 of their members were affected by a data breach at a third-party administrator in October, Delaware Online reports.
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Healthcare is the only industry where data breaches perpetrated by insiders outnumbered those that originated from external sources last year, according to Verizon's "2018 Data Breach Investigations Report."
Alaskan officials have upped their tally of individuals likely affected in a June 2018 data breach at the state's health department from 501 victims to 700,000, HealthcareInfoSecurity reports.
An employee at Lebanon (Pa.) VA Medical Center emailed a veteran's family member a document that contained the protected health information of up to 1,002 of elderly patients, the hospital told HIPAA Journal.
Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Congress to pass comprehensive federal privacy legislation, which he described as a "landmark package of reforms that protect and empower the consumer," in a recent op-ed for Time.
About 60 percent of last year's healthcare data breaches involved email phishing, according to data cited by HealthcareInfoSecurity.