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Privacy Tip – Health Care Sector Continues to Be Hit with Ransomware

According to the 2022 State of Ransomware Report issued recently by Sophos, it surveyed 5,600 IT professionals from 31 countries, including professionals in the health care sector. Those professionals in the health care...more

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Privacy Tip #335- Health Care Sector Continues to Be Hit with Ransomware

According to the 2022 State of Ransomware Report issued recently by Sophos, it surveyed 5,600 IT professionals from 31 countries, including professionals in the health care sector. Those professionals in the health care...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2020

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CYBERSECURITY - OFAC Issues Advisory on Sanctions for Facilitating Ransomware Payments - On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory “to...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2019 #3

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It is being reported that LifeLabs, a Canadian lab company that is the largest provider of laboratory diagnostics and lab testing services in Canada, recently paid an undisclosed ransom to hackers who compromised its computer...more

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British Member of “The Dark Overlord” Hacking Organization Extradited to Face Conspiracy and Identify Theft Charges in the United...

Beginning in 2016, the computer hacking organization known as “The Dark Overlord,” began to target victims in the St. Louis, Missouri area, including various health care providers, several accounting firms, and a medical...more

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Report on Patient Privacy 19, no. 12. Privacy Briefs - December 2019

Report on Patient Privacy 19, no. 12 (December 2019)  - Health care data breaches will have cost the industry $4 billion by the end of 2019, and 2020 is likely to be worse, reports a new survey from Black Book Market...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2018 #5

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Some analysts have predicted that by 2020, there will be 20 billion Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices worldwide, which could grow to over 80 billion by 2025. Global sales of IoT devices were $80 billion in 2017, and...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2018 #2

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According to reports by WhoWhatWhy and the Associated Press, five security experts have confirmed a private citizen’s allegation that the Georgia Online Voter Database contains a major security flaw and is vulnerable to...more

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Can The Health Care Industry Protect Itself from Cyberattacks?

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The health care industry is racing to adopt cutting-edge technology to provide patients with the best treatment possible at the lowest possible cost. ...more

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West Virginia University Medicine University Healthcare Patients Victims of Identity Theft

West Virginia University Medicine University Healthcare (WVUM) has confirmed that it is sending notification letters to over 7,400 of its patients seen at Berkeley Medical Center as a result of an unauthorized access to their...more

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Analysis of Health Care Data Breach Litigation Trends

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Companies that have a breach involving protected health information ("PHI") worry not only about fines and penalties imposed by the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), but about class action lawsuits. The risk...more

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