On October 15, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that Anthem, Inc. will pay $16 million to settle OCR’s investigation of its potential violations of the Health...more
10/24/2018
/ Anthem Insurance ,
Corrective Actions ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Settlement
On September 7, Equifax, one of three nationwide credit-reporting agencies that compile and evaluate the financial history of consumers, announced that it suffered a security breach in which sensitive information of...more
9/18/2017
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Credit Reporting Agencies ,
Credit Reports ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Equifax ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Government Investigations ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular
A global ransomware attack began early last Friday and has affected businesses and government entities in 150 countries, including Britain’s national health system, FedEx, Spain’s Telefónica, and the Russian Interior...more
5/19/2017
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
FBI ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Malware ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management ,
US-CERT
Part of Bradley Arant’s Privacy and Information Security Team’s seven-part Data Breach Toolkit Webinar Series, the “Data Breach Response Planning: Laying the Right Foundation” webinar, led by Paige Boshell and Amy Leopard,...more
9/17/2015
/ Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Breach Notification Rule ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FFIEC ,
Financial Institutions ,
FTC v Wyndham ,
Hackers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Information Sharing ,
NIST ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Wyndham