Virus nails hospital, causes massive data breach

The latest hospital cyber-attack is reported by a small-town rural hospital in Colorado. As a result, some 5,400 patients were mailed breach notification letters on March 17. Source: Govhealthit.com

Is HIPAA lulling health orgs into a false sense of security?

With the first anniversary of the omnibus HIPAA Final Rule on Privacy and Security just days away the question of whether the rule is making healthcare organizations less prone to security problems — or actually more so — has arisen. Source: Govhealthit.com

4 Lessons CIOs Can Learn From the Target Breach

Retail giant Target made headlines after announcing that 110 million Americans were affected by a massive data breach at its stores. If you want to avoid the same fate, pay attention to these four lessons learned in the wake of the Target breach. Source: CIO.com

Verizon Shares Glimpse Into Upcoming 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report

Breach data for upcoming Verizon report comes from some 50 contributing organizations from 95 nations, including Eastern European and Latin American CERTs. Source: Darkreading.com

University of Maryland begins purging data accessed in breach

The university has purged its databases of about 140,000 names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and university IDs of former students that were compromised in a massive data breach. Source: Diamondbackonline.com

US health information breaches up 137%

More than seven million health records in the United States were affected by data breaches in 2013, an increase of 137% over the previous year. Source: CMAJ.CA