Bloom Hearing Specialists, a major audiology clinic chain, was targeted by criminal hackers and lost masses of data, including patient personal details. The data breach included a man from Auckland whose details were kept by the company for over six years. Bloom has since informed thousands of patients about the cyber attack, which it discovered in late August after the attack in July.
New HIPAA Security Rule Released to Strengthen Healthcare Data
The US Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is proposing changes to the HIPAA Security Rule to boost cybersecurity for electronic protected health information (ePHI). The