SalusCare, on behalf of its patients, has sued an unnamed hacker and Amazon Web Services. According to the lawsuit, AWS is hosting healthcare data allegedly stolen from the Florida mental...
The Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, d/b/a American Medical Collection Agency reached a with 41 state attorneys general, which could lead to a $21 million fine, to resolve a multistate investigation...
Rep. Suzan Delbene, D-Washington, introduced a national consumer data privacy bill, which would create a federal data privacy standard and supersede the patchwork of state laws. The proposed...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced it has extended the comment period for proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Proposed in December 2020, the changes...
A group of three Congressional members from New Jersey are urging the Federal Trade Commission to utilize its Health Breach Notification Rule to crack down on mobile health apps that share personal...
At a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger confirmed that the SolarWinds Orion compromise claimed nine federal...
In two separate actions this week, federal efforts have stymied global cybercriminal activities. The Department of Justice indicted the creators of WannaCry, while transnational government cyber...
A lawsuit has been filed against Wilmington Surgical Associates in response to a ransomware attack in October. Allegedly, the Netwalker hacking group stole a trove of 13GB of data from the North...
The Food and Drug Administration recently named Kevin Fu as the agency’s first Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity in its Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
Fu is an...
US Fertility (USF) has been sued by the individuals impacted by its September ransomware attack, after the threat actors gained access to the third-party vendor’s network for a month and...
A group of Democratic Senators and Congressional membersproposed legislation meant to tackle the privacy and security issues tied to technologies used for the COVID-19 response, including contact...
A healthcare data breach lawsuit against Brandywine Urology Consultants has been dismissed by the Delaware Superior Court, as the victims failed to provide evidence of injuries or losses caused by the...
Easy Healthcare Corp., the owner of fertility app Premom, is being sued by an app user, over claims the company shared personal data with third-party data collection firms in China -- without user...
Two of the most prolific cyber threats have been disrupted by global Federal efforts this week. The notorious Emotet botnet was taken down through a global collaboration, while the FBI and the...
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health abruptly ended its contract with Philly Fighting COVID, tasked with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, over allegations that the startup...
A guardian of a patient whose information was included in last year's Blackbaud data breach has sued Rady Children’s Hospital over the incident. Blackbaud is a third-party vendor of the...
The Office for Civil Rights announced another enforcement discretion amid the pandemic, lifting penalties for potential HIPAA violations related to the good faith use of online or web-based scheduling...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has vacated the $4.3 million civil monetary penalty against the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center after two years and several lost appeals. The...
President Donald Trump officially signed HR 7898 into law on January 5. The HIPAA Safe Harbor bill amends the HITECH act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to incentivize best...
The FTC reached a settlement with SkyMed that requires the Nevada-based provider of emergency services to implement a comprehensive information security program, which will resolve allegations stemming...
