- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2023-11-01T22:10:00
A Massachusetts-based medical management company agreed to pay $100,000 in settling the first ransomware agreement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) reached by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR).
Doctors’ Management Service filed a breach report with the HHS in April 2019 regarding a ransomware attack that impacted more than 200,000 individuals, the agency said in a press release Tuesday. The company first detected the breach in December 2018, though it determined the initial access dated back to April 2017.
The HIPAA privacy, security, and breach notification rules set requirements regulated entities must follow to protect the privacy and security of health information.
2023-12-08T16:48:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Louisiana-based Lafourche Medical Group agreed to pay $480,000 as part of the first phishing attack-related settlement the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has reached under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
2023-11-21T17:43:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Saint Joseph’s Medical Center agreed to pay $80,000 as part of a settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights for potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
2023-09-13T19:57:00Z By Jeff Dale
L.A. Care Health Plan agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle allegations by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services it potentially violated the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act.
2025-07-08T19:50:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Federal banking regulators have laid the blame for Discover Financial Services charging merchants $1 billion in excessive credit card fees over 17 years squarely at the feet of company executives.
2025-07-07T19:02:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped a $95 million enforcement action against Navy Federal Credit Union, the latest regulatory pullback by the agency under President Donald Trump.
2025-07-07T17:45:00Z By Neil Hodge
The UK’s financial regulator has had a rough ride over the past couple of years as its strategy to “name and shame” firms it opened investigations into was widely slammed by the industry and lawmakers over concerns that companies could be unfairly maligned.
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