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Data Breach

Mar 11, 2025

Four Healthcare Data Breaches Impact Over 560,000 People in Recent Disclosure

In the past week, authorities were alerted to four separate data breaches affecting more than 560,000 individuals across various healthcare organizations. The breaches were disclosed by Hillcrest Convalescent Center, Gastroenterology Associates of Central Florida, Community Care Alliance, and Sunflower Medical Group. Among these incidents, Sunflower Medical Group, a Kansas-based healthcare services provider, suffered the most […]

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Jul 3, 2024

Federal Court Vacates Key Parts of HHS Guidance on Online Tracking Technologies

We recently wrote about a Pennsylvania federal court’s dismissal of a proposed “online tracking technology” class action brought against a local hospital, one of a rising number of lawsuits brought against hospitals and other HIPAA-covered entities which deploy third party source codes such as the Meta Pixel on their websites.  In a major ruling which […]

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Jun 20, 2024

Government Contractors Beware: Cybersecurity Lapses Can Result in Significant Liability Under the False Claims Act

On June 17, the Department of Justice announced that two government contractors agreed to pay a combined $11.3 Million under the False Claims Act for failing to implement certain safeguards to meet cybersecurity requirements contained in their government contracts. According to the government’s press release, the two contractors — Guidehouse Inc. and Nan McKay — […]

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May 17, 2023

U.K. Citizen Extradited to the U.S. and Pleads Guilty to Cyber Crime Offenses

On May 9, the Department of Justice announced Joseph James O’Connor, a 23-year-old U.K. citizen, pleaded guilty in New York to his role in cyberstalking and multiple schemes that involve computer hacking, including the July 2020 hack of Twitter.   O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, was extradited from Spain to the United States on April 26. Prosecutors […]

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