This section provides news about HIPAA breaches.
Memorial Hospital and Manor located in Bainbridge, Georgia, suffered a ransomware attack and data breach in November 2024. As a result, class action lawsuits were filed against the hospital. On November 2, 2024, the rural hospital discovered the ransomware attack and prevented access to its EMR system, website, and email account. The following day, the … Read more
On December 16, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a draft of the revised National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) in the Federal Register. Feedback on the draft is needed and will be accepted on or before January 15, 2025. First published in 2016, the NCIRP is a national strategic plan for … Read more
Oak Valley Hospital faced a lawsuit due to a security incident 2023 wherein patient data was accessed without authorization. The hospital discovered the breach on July 18, 2023, but the attackers initially acquired access to its system 3 months earlier on April 21, 2023. Data likely stolen contained names, medical insurance details, Social Security numbers, … Read more
Final approval for a $1.85 million settlement of a class action data breach lawsuit against East River Medical Imaging is due on October 22, 2024. Individuals affected by the breach of this New York radiology group can submit a claim until October 22, 2024, 2:30 PM EDT. East River Medical Imaging detected a security breach … Read more
St. Croix Regional Medical Center in Wisconsin has proposed to pay $225,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by people claiming they were charged excessive fees for accessing their medical records. The lawsuit, Stadler v. St. Croix Regional Medical Center Inc., alleges that the medical center charged patients and authorized individuals, such as attorneys, more than … Read more
Prospect Medical Holdings is facing a lawsuit associated with a 2023 Rhysida ransomware attack that held up to a motion to dismiss, although a few of the claims were dropped. At the beginning of August 2023, Prospect Medical Holdings discovered unauthorized access to its network. The investigation revealed that an unauthorized third party had accessed … Read more
The H1 Data Breach Analysis recently published by the Identity Theft Resource Center revealed that the number of victims of data breaches significantly increased for the first half of 2024. The number of publicly reported breaches (1,571) with over 1 billion victims is higher by 14% from the first half of 2023. The size of … Read more