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Another significant change brought about in Subtitle D of the HITECH Act is the new breach notification requirements. This imposes new notification requirements on covered entities, business associates, vendors of personal health records (PHR) and related entities if a breach of unsecured protected health information (PHI) occurs.
Under HIPAA, HIPAA-covered health plans are now required to use standardized HIPAA electronic transactions. See, 42 USC § 1320d-2 and 45 CFR Part 162. Information about this can be found in the final rule for HIPAA electronic transaction standards (74 Fed. Reg. 3296, published in the Federal Register on January 16, 2009), and on the CMS website.
Data breach notification laws have two main goals. The first goal is to allow individuals a chance to mitigate risks against data breaches. The second goal is to promote company incentive to strengthen data security. [2] Together, these goals work to minimize consumer harm from data breaches, including impersonation, fraud, and identity theft. [3]
A data breach is a violation of "organizational, regulatory, legislative or contractual" law or policy [2] that causes "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". [1] Legal and contractual definitions vary.
Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. [1] It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized or inappropriate access to data or the unlawful use, disclosure, disruption, deletion, corruption, modification, inspection, recording, or devaluation of information.
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual
Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian citizens were compromised in the breach, making it one of the largest cybercrimes related to identity theft. Equifax discovered the breach end of July, but did not disclose it to the public until September 2017.
The first data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 [1] and affected all three billion user accounts. [2] [3] Yahoo announced the breach on December 14, 2016. [4] Marissa Mayer, who was CEO of Yahoo at the time of the breach, testified before Congress in 2017 that Yahoo had been unable to determine who perpetrated the 2013 breach. [5]