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.
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About 60 percent of last year's healthcare data breaches involved email phishing, according to data cited by HealthcareInfoSecurity.
HITRUST, a security standards development and accreditation organization, updated its common security framework, or CSF, assurance program Jan. 15.
Amazon Web Services will allow customers to back up their data across cloud and on-premise environments through a new service dubbed AWS Backup.
A new malware strain may be able to uninstall security products deployed in the cloud, according to a report from researchers at cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks and reported by The Hill.
Mike Kijewski, CEO of medical device cybersecurity company MedCrypt, discusses the reality of cyberattacks on patient medical devices and how hospitals can best approach prevention.