The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has created in an interesting tool, a "Chronology of Data Breaches." It doesn’t promise that it is comprehensive; what it does say is that it is a "useful indication of the types of breaches that occur, the categories of entities that experience breaches, and the size of such breaches." More
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HIPAA Breach Notification Made Simple — Just Fill in the Blanks
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has tried to make a HIPAA security breach easy to report, with its newly-released online “Notice to the Secretary of HHS of Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information.”
The online form is straightforward, featuring pull-down options tied to the new HITECH rules: it will let you report whether your breach is for more than 500 individuals (or fewer than that),… More