Jul 3, 2024 | Data Breach, HIPAA
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...
Jun 20, 2024 | Cyber Law, Data Breach, False Claims Act, Government Contract, Government Investigations
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....
May 17, 2023 | Cyber Law, Data Breach
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...
Jan 4, 2023 | Cyber Law, Data Breach
On December 14, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the federal agency that manages the Medicare program, posted a press release related to a data breach suffered by a CMS subcontractor. According to the notice, on October 8, 2022, a CMS...
Aug 24, 2022 | Cyber Law, Data Breach
Chilivis Grubman recently discussed a data breach by OneTouchPoint, Inc., a business associate (“BA”) of several healthcare companies. One healthcare company (Aetna ACE) reported that the protected health information of 326,278 plan members was exposed because of the...
Jul 26, 2022 | Cyber Law, Data Breach, HIPAA
Cyber breaches, especially in the health care industry, continue to plague companies of all sizes. Chilivis Grubman attorneys routinely discuss cyber-related developments. In May 2022, CG attorneys discussed the ARcare data breach that potentially affected over...
