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Anna Jaques Hospital notifies 316,300 people about 2023 ransomware attack

Posted on December 7, 2024 by Dissent

On Christmas, December 2023, Anna Jaques Hospital (AJH) in Massachusetts was grappling with a cyberattack that knocked out their EHR system and resulted in them having to divert ambulances to other area hospitals. On January 23, they posted a preliminary website notice (archived) about the attack. That notice was posted four days after threat actors…

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Veterans Affairs’ Nurse Charged With Unlawfully Accessing Patient Health Information

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Dissent

Here’s today’s reminder of the insider threat. It’s a shame they don’t explain how the employee was able to access the patient’s information or why it was accessed. From the U.S.A.O. of the Western District of Michigan: GRAND RAPIDS – U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten today announced that Jessica Nicole Pitcher,…

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HHS OCR Imposes a $548,265 Penalty Against Children’s Hospital Colorado for HIPAA Violations

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Dissent

Not all monetary penalties are for breaches affecting large numbers of patients. In this case, HHS imposed a penalty on an entity that had breaches in both 2017 and 2020. DataBreaches notes that the 2017 incident affected 3,370 patients, and the 2020 incident affected 2,553 patients — as reported to HHS at the time. Today,…

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Failure to terminate access can be costly. Very costly.

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Dissent

Earlier today, DataBreaches posted an HHS OCR announcement of a settlement with a HIPAA covered entity. A former contractor had accessed its electronic medical record system on three occasions without authorization to retrieve PHI for use in potential fraudulent Medicare claims. OCR imposed a monetary penalty of $1.19 million for the entity’s failure to: conduct…

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Major energy contractor reports ‘limited’ access to IT after ransomware locks files

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Dissent

Jessica Lyons reports: American energy contractor ENGlobal disclosed that access to its IT systems remains limited following a ransomware infection in late November. In a Monday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company said it became aware of a cybersecurity incident on November 25 after criminals broke into its networks and locked…

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Change Healthcare Data Breach Settlement Talks To Be Explored Early in MDL

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Dissent

Irvin Jackson reports: Parties involved in the federal Change Healthcare data breach lawsuits have been ordered to meet separately with a U.S. Magistrate Judge over the next two months, to discuss the most effective structure for settlement talks and the optimum timing for when negotiations should begin that may provide payouts to millions of Americans. The potential…

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