HIPAA Journal - PHI leaking incident through GitHub
Summary
Highlights From The HIPAA Journal From the August 17th Newsletter • A new report has revealed the personal and protected health information of patients and other sensitive data are being exposed online without the knowledge of covered entities and business associates through public GitHub repositories. • Email led the way for the location of the highest number of breaches occurred • These forms of technologies were created quickly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. If a patient chooses to use home monitoring technologies and is not instructed to do so by a HIPAA-covered entity, HIPAA privacy protections will not apply. • The attack was likely caused by Defray ransomware which usually spreads via malicious Word documents sent via email in small, targeted campaigns. Over 3,700 patients had PHI exposed through The Connection, INC. (CT), a provider of community-based behavioral health and substance use services.
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