Humana is notifying an undisclosed number of members across several states to a potential compromise of their health information after it discovered a "sophisticated cyber spoofing attack" on two of its websites June 3.
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As the federal government beefs up its efforts to root out fraud in the health sector, healthcare professionals need to understand HIPAA's role as a source of criminal liability, according to a STAT column by healthcare privacy lawyers Anne Murphy,…
The HHS Office for Civil Rights has reported three HIPAA fines this year, resolving allegations against a hospital, healthcare company and medical records storage vendor.
Amazon recently purchased online pharmacy startup PillPack, giving the e-commerce giant access to information about people's health conditions and sparking privacy concerns, The Wall Street Journal reports.
UC San Diego Health has notified 619 patients that their protected health information may have been compromised as part of the massive Nuance Communications data breach.
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Internet crimes targeting the healthcare sector cost victims $925,849 in 2017, according to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center's annual report.
A recent press release by Iron Mountain announces their entrance into the Croatian market with the acquisition of Archiv Trevor.
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine is notifying approximately 870 patients after an employee's personal laptop computer that stored limited health information collected for research was stolen from his car June 3.
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.