Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolina Digestive Health Associates began notifying about 100 patients after it learned an employee stole their personal information — including Social Security numbers, dates of birth and names — and shared it with fraud suspects, according to wsoctv.com.
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Polk County (Iowa) Health Services accidentally and unknowingly disseminated the protected health information of some patients who received care at the Crisis Observation Center in Des Moines, Iowa from June 2014 to January 2018.
Lake Mary, Fla.-based MedWatch, a care management company that offers risk management solutions to self-funded health plans, began notifying their clients' health plan members April 13 that a vendor misconfiguration error exposed their protected health information between October 2017 and…
A former employee of Martinsburg, W. Va.-based Berkeley Medical Center — which is part of WVU Medicine University Healthcare — will pay more than $22,000 in restitution to resolve allegations of obtaining patients' information to open credit cards and other…
Thirty-four technology and security companies signed the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, a public commitment to collaborate on cybersecurity efforts that protect consumers across the globe, April 17.
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The FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.K. National Cyber Security Centre issued a joint technical alert on alleged Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks targeting international network infrastructure devices April 16.
Biometrics may one day replace passwords, or at least that is what a recent Veridium survey revealed.
T-Mobile will pay a $40 million fine acknowledging Federal Communications Commission allegations the company employed fake ring tones when they couldn't connect calls in rural areas, according to NPR.
Several Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health employees' email accounts were compromised and accessed by unauthorized individuals between Nov. 1, 2017 and Feb. 8 2018, according to HIPAA Journal.
According to the Protenus Breach Barometer report, over 5.5 million records were stolen or exposed as a result of 477 reported healthcare data breaches in 2017.