Sometimes HIPAA Violations Involve Technology, But Technology Is Not At Fault

“This Is Your Wake-Up Call.”

Last week the U.S. government charged five Chinese military officials with spying on U.S. companies in order to steal vital trade secrets. The Chinese cyber thieves targeted some of the largest American makers of nuclear and solar technology, stealing confidential business information, sensitive trade secrets, and internal communications.  The Justice Department said this should be a...

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Duleep Pillai
May 27, 2014
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Sometimes HIPAA Violations Involve Technology, But Technology Is Not At Fault

Keylogging and HIPAA Breaches. What’s Hiding In Your Computers?

The University of California, Irvine Student Health Center has been the victim of a HIPAA breach.  Nearly 2,000 pieces of PHI (protected health information), including financial data, were stolen via a keylogger attack.  The keylogger collected this information for over a period of a month before being discovered. How This Happened.  The keylogger was residing...

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Duleep Pillai
May 27, 2014
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Sometimes HIPAA Violations Involve Technology, But Technology Is Not At Fault

Urgent Notice For All U.S. Healthcare Practices and Organizations

You’re Not HIPAA Compliant Unless Your Mobile Devices Are Properly Encrypted. Advocate Health Care in Downers Grove, Illinois, experienced the second biggest HIPAA data breach ever when four of their unencrypted laptops were stolen. Electronic Personal Health Information (ePHI) for more than 4 million people was compromised. If these laptops had been properly encrypted, the...

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Duleep Pillai
May 23, 2014
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Sometimes HIPAA Violations Involve Technology, But Technology Is Not At Fault

URGENT. Change Your EBay Password. They Got Hacked

EBay’s parent company E-commerce, is asking all their users to change their passwords after a cyber attack compromised their database. So far they haven’t reported any stolen financial data, but to be certain you aren’t affected, it’s best to change your password. E-commerce also owns PayPal, however their data is stored on a separate network,...

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Duleep Pillai
May 21, 2014
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