Cybersecurity

A U.S. district court judge in Washington, D.C., on June 15 dismissed a case by a patient who alleged Laboratory Corporation of America, or LabCorp, violated HIPAA, reaffirming the precedent that individual patients cannot file lawsuits for alleged HIPAA violations,…

There's a new type of ransomware scam making its way across the internet, according to English IT security company Sophos.

A Johnson County, Mo., man using an antenna to pick up TV channels on his laptop received unencrypted patient information from several local and distant hospitals, according to The Kansas City Star.

KLAS Research released a report on cybersecurity services in June to evaluate the performance of various vendors in the space.

Hackers potentially stole nearly 270,000 health and insurance records when they broke into computers at Med Associates, a health billing claims company.

A federal judge in Arizona sentenced 23-year-old Randall Tucker, also known as "Bitcoin Baron," to 20 months in prison for launching an attack that crippled the emergency communications system of the city of Madison, Wis.

For nearly one year, a woman in Westerville, Ohio claims she has been receiving faxes of other patient's  medical records from Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, according to a Fox28 report.

Approximately a dozen Washington (Pa.) Health System employees were suspended after an internal investigation of alleged inappropriate access to patient records, a health system official confirmed to the Observer-Reporter June 18.

The incidence of ransomware attacks is decreasing, despite cyberattacks generally rising in the last year, according to ISACA's fourth annual "State of Cybersecurity" survey.

An HHS administrative law judge upheld an HHS Office for Civil Rights finding requiring the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to pay $4,348,000 in civil penalties for HIPAA violations related to the organization's encryption policies, HHS…