Seaborn Larson reports: Kalispell Regional Healthcare, northwest Montana’s largest healthcare provider, was sued late last month by one of the 130,000 patients whose information was possibly compromised in a data breach announced by the hospital in October. William Henderson, represented by Billings attorney John Heenan, filed the civil complaint in Cascade County District Court on Nov. 25….
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Singapore government pledges to beef up data security after breaches
Mia Hunt reports: The Singapore government is to establish a new Data Security Office and implement a number of measures to better safeguard citizen information, following a series of serious data leaks. The decision to set up the new unit, which will be part of the Prime Minister’s Office, comes after a committee found that…
OCR Secures $2.175 Million HIPAA Settlement after Sentara Hospitals Failed to Properly Notify HHS of a Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information
OCR has announced another settlement. This one involves Sentara Hospitals, and it’s a somewhat surprising one in the sense that Sentara not only seems to have gotten the fundamentals of HIPAA and notification compliance wrong, but then they seem to have insisted in their wrongheaded ways even after HHS told them what their obligations were. …
Select Health Network reveals compromise of employee email accounts that may impact an unspecified number of patients
The following press release is by what appears to be a business associate under HIPAA. It does not name the covered entities whose patients or insured members may have been impacted. Will we see notices from those covered entities? Probably not, unless more than 500 were affected for a particular covered entity. The notice also…
FL: Mount Dora medical company reports minor data breach
Payne reports: MOUNT DORA — A Mount Dora medical company caught an employee trying to sell patient information earlier this year, according to a statement sent Friday. An apparent data breach at Aegis Medical Group, a Mount Dora-based healthcare network, was revealed to the group by the U.S. Secret Service Sept. 11 after they allegedly discovered the woman’s…
Analyzing Careless Users, An Often Overlooked Threat
Many have written about how to mitigate the risks posed by malicious insiders. But what about the vulnerabilities associated with Careless Users? What actions can healthcare organizations take to better prevent a breach caused by internal negligence? The Clearwater CyberIntelligence® Institute analyzed the Critical and High risks found in Clearwater’s IRM|Analysis™ database, specifically focusing on…