HIPAA Journal

MARCH 29, 2024

In February, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care revised the total number of individuals affected by an April 2023 ransomware attack, increasing the total by more than 81,000 to 2,632,275 individuals. The post Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Increases Ransomware Victim Count to 2.86 BWPO learned of the data exposure in January 2024.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

The group operates out of Russia and has been operational since at least 2009 and is responsible for the infamous Dridex banking Trojan and several other ransomware and malware variants, including BitPaymer, Hades, Phoenixlocker, WastedLocker, SocGholish, GameOver Zeus, and JabberZeus.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 8, 2022

The report shows how adversaries stepped up their attacks on the healthcare industry from 2014 through 2017. In 2019, ransomware started to be extensively used in attacks on healthcare organizations with the Ryuk ransomware gang one of the most prolific ransomware operators.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 2, 2022

There are also highly capable cyber criminal organizations that operate out of Russia or have voiced their support for Russia, including the operators of Conti Ransomware. The Conti ransomware gang, which is widely believed to have also operated Ryuk ransomware, has extensively targeted the healthcare sector in the United States.

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The HIPAA Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Great Write-Up on OCR's 3rd Ransomware Settlement: Theresa Defino of Report on Patient Privacy has an excellent article on the recently-announced settlement Heritage Valley Health System entered into with OCR.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 3, 2022

The Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) has published an Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident (OCCI) checklist which serves as a flexible template for responding to and recovering from serious cyberattacks that cause extended system outages, such as ransomware attacks.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dotty Bollinger, JD, Healthcare Compliance Consultant, Compliancy Group The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a settlement with Doctors’ Management Services after the healthcare vendor succumbed to a ransomware attack. 21CO) faced a $2.3

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Following the WannaCry ransomware attacks in 2017, which caused massive disruption to clinical operations at several U.S. From the middle of 2020 to the end of 2021, 82% of healthcare systems reported a cyber incident, and 34% of those incidents were ransomware attacks. Version 2.0

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In 2017, data breaches were being reported at a rate of one per day. Ransomware attack. Ransomware attack. Ransomware attack at a business associate. Ransomware attack. Ransomware attack. While the number of reported data breaches increased by 28.6% Wolfe Clinic, P.C. Healthcare Provider. FMC Services, LLC.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 26, 2025

The much-delayed second phase of compliance audits was conducted in 2016/2017 and involved 207 desk audits (166 covered entities and 41 business associates). The first phase of HIPAA audits commenced in 2012 and consisted of 115 audits (61 healthcare providers, 47 health plans, and 7 healthcare clearinghouses).

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

There has also been a downward trend in improper disposal incidents and unauthorized access/disclosure incidents, but data breaches continue to increase due to a massive increase in hacking incidents and ransomware attacks.In For instance, in 2022, the electronic health record provider, Eye Care Leaders, suffered a ransomware attack.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

As the chart shows, healthcare security breaches are occurring twice as often as in 2017/2018, with two large healthcare data breaches reported each day on average in 2023. NY Healthcare Provider 2,470,000 Ransomware attack (ransomware group unknown) Florida Health Sciences Center, Inc.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2023

HIPAA enforcement by state attorneys general was stepped up in 2017 with 5 settlements and again in 2018 when 12 cases resulted in financial penalties for violations of the HIPAA Rules. million Theft of 2 unencrypted laptop computers Failure to safeguard personal information 2017 Vermont SAManage USA, Inc. million 78.8 million 78.8

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

On June 6, 2024, the RansomHub ransomware group gained access to some of its computer systems, exfiltrated sensitive data, and encrypted files. The stolen data related to customers who made purchases between June 6, 2017, and July 30, 2017, and included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers license numbers, and other ID documents.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 26, 2025

If the nearest hospital experiences a ransomware attack that causes disruption to hospital operations, rural residents must travel a further 20 miles for common services and often a further 40 miles for specialized services. In 2022, 429 rural hospitals were at high financial risk.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

Protenus has been releasing annual Breach Barometer reports since 2016, and the number of healthcare data breaches has increased every year, with the number of breached records increasing every year since 2017. 905 incidents are included in the report, which is a 19% increase from 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 17, 2019

For those who were derailed by the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks of 2017, the news won’t come as a surprise. A new survey of healthcare CISOs concluded that the bulk of their organizations saw an increase in cyberattacks over the past year, many of which have grown more cunning over time. According to a […].

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HIT Consultant

JULY 15, 2024

From 2018-2022, there has been a 93% increase in large breaches reported to OCR (369 to 712), with a 278% increase in large breaches involving ransomware. Mike Walters, President & co-founder of Action1 Corporation According to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) , cyber incidents in health care are on the rise.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. A big piece of addressing the cybersecurity healthcare challenge is educating people who work in healthcare settings, and that has been under-funded.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

Beware of older Microsoft operating systems : The WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 disrupted the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) , costing the NHS nearly one hundred million pounds. Further, adopt an approach to security that trusts no one and requires constant verification and validation of access (zero trust).

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With full-stack observability and business context combined, these teams can effectively communicate to put a system in place that is prepared to withstand increasingly dangerous ransomware attacks. In 2017 tech giant Cisco acquired AppDynamics for $3.7B.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Government mandates were an impetus for change, starting with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to “promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology” (Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 2017).

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Health Care Performance

AUGUST 16, 2022

Pino also referenced the OCR’s 2016-2017 HIPAA Audit Industry Report released in December 2020. According to the 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report , ransomware attacks decreased 23% globally in the first half 2022. But, in the healthcare industry, ransomware attacks increased by 328% during this timeframe.

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Health Law RX

DECEMBER 21, 2023

On October 31, 2023, OCR issued its first settlement agreement under the HIPAA Rules related to a ransomware attack (the Ransomware Settlement ) and on December 7, 2023, its first settlement under the HIPAA Rules arising from a phishing cyber-attack (the Phishing Settlement ).

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2022

HIPAA breaches include unauthorized access by employees as well as third parties, improper disclosures, the exposure of protected health information, and ransomware attacks. The extent to which the risk to the protected health information has been mitigated.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 31, 2022

An investigation – following a 2017 complaint to OCR about an individual receiving another patient’s protected health information (PHI) in a bill – discovered Sentara had mailed 577 patients’ PHI to the wrong addresses. Ransomware attacks. Sentara Hospitals operates 12 acute care hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 8, 2024

In December 2017, a personal representative (father) filed a complaint against the practice after Dr. Mente failed to provide him with the records of his three minor children. DMS was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the ePHI of approximately 200,000 individuals. ransomware.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 25, 2022

From 2017 to 2020, the top five issues found during investigations that led to corrective action fell into the following categories: Impermissible Uses & Disclosures. HHS OCR’s investigatory purpose is to look for violations that caused or contributed to the breach of PHI. Safeguards. Administrative Safeguards.

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Redox

JANUARY 24, 2018

According to a survey by KPMG, 47 percent of healthcare providers and health plans said they had faced security-related HIPAA violations or cyber-attacks that compromised patient data in 2017. That’s not a big surprise given that only 35 percent of respondents said they were “completely ready” to protect patient records.

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Total HIPAA

JUNE 25, 2019

In 2017, the average cost of a breach for a medium-sized business was $2 million , and it has only gone up since. Hackers coerce business owners into paying large sums of money to release their data/end a ransomware attack. After a breach, cyber insurance costs will skyrocket , if the company is able to get it at all.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ramped up ransomware incursions from aggressively opportunistic cyber crooks. Here's an interesting one: This story actually dates from way back in the pre-pandemic past of 2017. A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2024

Ransomware, account takeover and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that lock providers out of electronic health record (EHR) systems, shut down dosing machines and brick critical equipment force hospitals to act fast to protect patients, meaning they often have no choice but to give in to the attackers’ demands.

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Compliancy Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The settlement marks OCR’s sixth ransomware enforcement action. Ransomware Cybersecurity Investigation: Access Easily Obtained In July of 2017, PSASD filed a required breach report with OCR. Details of the settlement are provided below. passwords, login information, etc.).

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them? doctor talks importance of diversity in health care Illinois hospital CEO dismissed amid board investigation Illinois paid sick leave legislation heading to Gov. million from non-profit to help end childhood cancer St.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 28, 2022

Patient data stolen ahead of Memorial Health ransomware attack, EHR downtime. Memorial Health Faces Lawsuit After Hive Ransomware Cyberattack. Wisconsin Sees First County-Owned SNF Close in the State Since 2017. Vaccination rates at long-term care facilities in ND. OhioHealth Makes New Investments in West Columbus.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 14, 2022

Maryland officials confirm ransomware attack shut down Department of Health. 2nd Acquittal in Charges in 2017 Ohio Nursing Home Death. . ‘We’re all hurting’: Hospital workers plead for vaccination and help amid omicron surge. In medical first, surgeons transplant pig heart into man.

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

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