HIPAA Holiday Alert: On the 12th Day of Breaches My Hacker Sent to Me...

We know what our true love sends on "The Twelve Days of Christmas," but what are hackers trying to send to us? Consider how unhappy the holidays (and the rest of the year) would be with these twelve days of breaches.

HIPAA Holiday Cheer (Lament?)

By Elizabeth Litten
Posted in HIPAA Enforcement

On the twelfth day of breaches
my hacker sent to me:

Twelve Data Downloads

Eleven Plundered Patches

Ten Missed BA Contracts

Nine Malware Installs

Eight Mis-Sent Faxes

Seven Stolen Laptops

Six Snooping Staffers

Five Old NPPs

Four Lost Thumbdrives

Three Re-Sent Texts

Two Pop-Up Links . . .

And a Bill for Compliance Auditing.

 

For more information on HIPAA, contact HIPAA Privacy Officer Zorana Vojnovic at (402) 354-6863 or zorana.vojnovic@nmhs.org.

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"HIPPA Holiday Cheer (Lament?)" reprinted with permission of author and Fox Rothschild LLP. For the original posting to Fox Rothschild LLP 's "HIPAA, HITECH & HIT" blog, click here.