Small Breach, Big Settlement

Earlier this week the Department of Health and Human Services HHS announced the first ever breach settlement where fewer than 500 patient records were compromised. The $50,000 settlement was issued as a result of 441 patient records being stored on an unencrypted laptop that was stolen from the...

Texas Cancer Center Alerts Patients to Personal Data Theft — Almost Two Months Later

A University of Texas cancer center today began notifying almost 30,000 patients that their personal data was stolen after someone swiped an unencypted laptop from a physician’s home almost two months ago. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center issued a news release saying it waited to...