Databreaches is reporting that someone discovered a large amount of data on a public segment of Amazon Web Services. This person, described as a technology enthusiast (i.e. a geek) downloaded some of this data and discovered it contained medical claims data. The repository, which supposedly contained gigabytes of data was later identified to belong to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Office Of Civil Rights (OCR) has been pretty quiet these last couple of years regarding HIPAA audits, but that may be about to change. OCR’s staff is small, so they have hired a contractor, FCI, according to the Federal Register. In an interview, deputy director Deven McGraw says that they will be starting up […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield revealed that it has been hacked. Excellus did not detect it had been hacked at all. In fact, it was not until they hired Mandiant to do an audit in the wake of the other Blue Cross hacks that they found out that they had been hacked. The data of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cancer Care Group, an Indianapolis based Oncology practice learned a lesson the hard way. They allowed an employee to have an unencrypted laptop and a server in his car, from which both computers were stolen. They discovered that the computers contained protected health information – social security numbers and insurance data for 55,000 patients. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the Ashley Madison data is more widely circulated and people have a chance to digest it, consequences are beginning to add up which will have a negative impact on the parent company Avid Life Media, likely for years to come. Granted this is a somewhat unusual situation, so some of the consequences may not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Add UCLA to the list of health care providers that have been hacked. UCLA says they discovered the hacking last September, but it was not until May that they discovered that the hackers had gotten into the part of the system that stores patient records. Even now they are not sure if the hackers took […]
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