From OCR’s newsletter today: Throughout 2020 and 2021, hackers have targeted the health care industry seeking unauthorized access to valuable electronic protected health information (ePHI). The number of breaches of unsecured ePHI reported to the U.S Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) affecting 500 or more individuals due to hacking…
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Arkansas AG Sues Defunct Health Provider for Mishandling Patient Records
Scott Carroll reports: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Thursday announced a lawsuit against the defunct Eastern Ozarks Regional Health for failing to protect sensitive patient information after it closed. The former hospital in Cherokee Village is accused of leaving behind thousands of unsecured patient and employee records that contain social security numbers, driver’s license…
WA: Chelan Douglas Health District Warning Residents of 2021 Data Breach
Kyle Lamb reports: The Chelan Douglas Health District is warning the public of a data breach that may have led to the loss of identifiable personal and health information. The district said the hack occurred in early July of last year, with cybersecurity consultants finishing a review of the breach February 12th and the district…
Ph: ‘Media was right’: Lawmakers confirm data breach, hacking of voters’ info
Joseph Pedrajas reports that there is an update to the alleged data breach that a Commission on Elections official called “fake news:” After about two months of investigation and various denials from different concerned agencies, lawmakers on Thursday, March 17 confirmed that there was “indeed a security breach” in the operations of the Commission on…
Iranian hackers leak Mossad chief’s personal information
Lilach Shoval reports: Iranian hackers on Wednesday published a video on an anonymous Telegram channel featuring personal photos and documents allegedly obtained from a phone used by the wife of Mossad Director David Barnea. The video was posted on the “Open Hands” channel, which according to Israeli media was created on Tuesday. Its owners claimed to have…
President Biden Signs Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Payment and Cyber Incident Reporting into Law
Ashden Fein, Robert Huffman, Moriah Daugherty, and Hensey A. Fenton III of Covington and Burling write: On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2022, a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package to fund the government through September 2022. The omnibus spending package includes the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of…