America is literally addicted to social media. Social media platforms are intentionally engineered to provide the same addictive gratification as gambling or even drug use. More and more people are logging in to get a fleeting dose of euphoria from the latest like on their post or selfie. Some studies have calculated that the average…
Connected cars talk to us, the internet, wireless devices, other connected cars, and soon they will talk to roadway infrastructure. Even worse, they’re listening. In an ever-growing internet of things, connected cars are like gigantic Amazon Echos – listening to us speak and collecting data. Often this data is mundane, but, as people become more…
The Center for Children’s Digestive Health (CCDH) signed over a $31,000 check to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to settle HIPAA violations. CCDH freely provided nearly 11,000 records containing protected health information (PHI) to the company FileFax, Inc. for long-term storage. The issue is not that CCDH transferred the records but that…
CardioNet calls itself the “leading supplier of Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry.” In other words, they sell wireless devices that help monitor heart conditions in patients. Now CardioNet is leading the way in multi-million dollar settlements with OCR for violating HIPAA privacy and security rules. On April 24, 2017 OCR announced the $2.5 million settlement. In…
Colorado based Metro Community Provider Network (MCPN) may just be the victim of the most expensive phishing attack on record. MCPN did not lose their money to the attackers but rather is writing a $400,000 check to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for the breach that resulted. This amount would likely have been higher…
