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Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more
U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) recently introduced a bill addressing cybersecurity protections and oversight in the healthcare industry. The Strengthening Cybersecurity in Health Care Act, introduced...more
Research from Guidepoint Security found that 2023 saw an 80% increase in ransomware activity year-over-year, driven in part by multiple mass exploitation campaigns impacting hundreds of organizations. In total, the report...more
On February 28, 2024, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) seeking to protect the sensitive personal data of Americans from potential exploitation by particular countries. The EO acknowledges that access to...more
Phishing has long been a favorite tactic for threat actors (hackers) to commence a cyberattack. The rapid expansion of more adaptable and available artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as natural language...more
This year will see a continued proliferation of enforcement against health-care fraud, with old and new theories. Some hot spots for enforcement will involve cases about new technologies; data outliers; entities perceived as...more
Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more
Record Settlement in a Declined Case - While defendants typically breathe a sigh of relief when the Department of Justice (DOJ) declines to intervene in a qui tam False Claims Act (FCA) case, a more favorable outcome is by...more
The systems healthcare providers use to provide safe and reliable patient care, and their confidential patient information, provide attractive targets for hackers using ransomware to extort payment....more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 10 (October, 2022) - Thirty Democratic senators led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have called on HHS to strengthen federal privacy protections under HIPAA to broadly restrict providers...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - HHS said in early March that it was not aware of any specific threat to U.S. health care organizations stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “However, in the...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 2 (February, 2022) - Tensions between the U.S. and Russia could lead to a heightened risk of Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks on U.S. interests, including health care organizations,...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, real “security fatigue” with pandemic-related issues will combine with cybercriminals’ increasingly sophisticated...more
Ransomware Particularly Inflicts Health Care and Life Sciences Organizations - Ransomware is a malicious cyber threat vector that employs encryption malware to prevent users from accessing their systems and data unless...more
Report on Patient Privacy 18, no. 1 (January 2021) - The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled its 13th enforcement action in its Right of Access Initiative, first announced in 2019 to support individuals’ rights to...more
Compliance Today (January 2021) - The newly created Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint alert with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services regarding...more
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory in light of...more
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are aware of an increased cybersecurity threat to hospitals...more
On Oct. 28, a joint cybersecurity advisory was published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI and the Department of Health & Human Services. The advisory warned of an imminent cybercrime...more
The combination of a significant increase in COVID-19 cases, political tensions in the final days of a national election season, and law enforcement’s focus on election security created an opportunity for cybercriminals to...more
On October 28, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a...more
As if the recent uptick in national COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations were not enough to tax an already beleaguered health system, on October 28, 2020, three federal agencies issued a cybersecurity Joint Advisory warning of...more
BakerHostetler is closely monitoring a Cybersecurity Advisory issued jointly by several government agencies including the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FBI, on October 28. ...more
A public cybersecurity advisory was issued yesterday about a likely ransomware attack against the health care and public health sector. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of...more
On October 28, 2020, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a joint warning that they...more