Two recently reported hacking incidents - each affecting tens of thousands of individuals - serve as contrasting examples of the wide range of time and difficulty it apparently takes for some entities to determine and report protected health information breaches. On one end of the ...

On September 15, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a policy statement affirming that health apps and connected devices that collect or use consumers’ health information must comply with the Health Breach Notification Rule. The rule requires the makers of these apps to notify ...

Massachusetts-based UMass Memorial Health is the latest large healthcare network to report an email phishing incident that potentially compromised hundreds of thousands of individuals' protected health information. The unauthorized access to "a limited number" of employee email accounts ...

Current and former patients of the Las Vegas Cancer Center may have had their personal information exposed to bad actors after a ransomware attack, the center announced in a press release on Monday. LVCC administrators confirmed hackers accessed encrypted data on the center's server over Labor ...

Minnesota healthcare provider hit by cyber-attack. A US physical therapy center has announced that the personal data of more than 6,500 patients has been breached in a security incident. Viverant PT, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said that the personally identifiable information (PII) of ...