Consumer advocate Deven McGraw describes how a new federal rule spells out four factors that must be weighed in a risk assessment to determine if a health data breach must be reported.
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule includes three new considerations for determining potential civil monetary penalties following a breach investigation. What are the implications for breach prevention strategies?
Most organizations are aware of the cost of a security breach. But can they quantify the loss of trust in the wake of a security incident? Jeff Hudson of Venafi discusses the value of trust.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a breach at Educause that exposed hashed passwords, and a theft at Crescent Healthcare's billing center that involved patient data.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a network intrusion compromising customers of a New York utility company and a laptop stolen from a hospice employee's car.
Even the brightest technologists aren't immune from cyber-attacks. Just ask Facebook. The social-media company says it fell victim to a sophisticated attack in which an exploit allowed malware to be installed on employees' laptops.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including an ID theft case at a Florida health department, and a security technology vendor hit by a breach.
Security threats to healthcare organizations are on the rise - and so are regulatory requirements. Kim Singletary of McAfee discusses the top breach prevention and response challenges for healthcare organizations in 2013.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including hacker attacks affecting the U.S. Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Department of Energy that exposed sensitive information.
The new, much more objective guidance for reporting breaches that's included in the HIPAA omnibus rule will result in an increase in notifications, predicts privacy law expert Marcy Wilder.
"The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked," Twitter's Bob Lord says.
In this week's breach roundup, read about a stem cell bank reaching a settlement with the FTC tied to a 2010 breach and an investigation into unauthorized access to an Alabama state computer network.
The new omnibus rule makes it clear that business associates must comply with HIPAA. And the latest additions to the federal health data breach tally put a spotlight on why some BAs need to improve patient data protection.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including the fourth major breach affecting Stanford University medical facilities and a vendor misplacing information on 6,000 Utah Medicaid clients.
The sentencing of a former hospital emergency department worker in a data theft case serves as a reminder of why healthcare organizations need to take steps to prevent improper access to records.
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