The Massachusetts Attorney General settled alleged HIPAA and Massachusetts Data Security Law violations with former medical transportation provider Transformative Healthcare, LLC and its subsidiaries Lifeline and Fallon. The settlement also resolves MassHealth upcoding allegations, and the combined allegations carry a $1,000,000 penalty p…
Jefferson County Health Department (Hillsboro, Missouri) has agreed to a $2.25 million settlement of a consolidated class action over a 2022 data security incident. An unauthorized third party accessed its network between October 31 and November 15, 2022, and may have viewed or obtained personal and protected health information. The breac…
A $6,438,578.20 settlement has been agreed to resolve the "Other Labs Track" of consolidated litigation over the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) breach. The defendants are AMCA clients Sonic Healthcare U.S.A., Aurora Diagnostics LLC, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. and Austin Pathology Associates. AMCA, a subsidiary of Ret…
Mid Florida Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, a 33-location medical group in central Florida, reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights a breach affecting 85,585 individuals. An unauthorized third party accessed its network from March 26 to March 30, 2026, and patient files may have been viewed or acquired. Two other healthcare incidents w…
Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP) and its managed IT provider XTIUM (formerly Axispoint Technology Solutions Group) settled with the New York and Connecticut Attorneys General over an August 2024 breach affecting almost 890,000 individuals. The settlement carries a $4 million penalty, of which $2.7 million is payable (New York $2…
California has settled with 23andMe for $6 million over the 2023 credential-stuffing breach. The breach exposed personal and genetic data of about 6.9 million people, including 855,000 California residents. The settlement follows a July 2026 $18 million settlement with a coalition of 42 state attorneys general, which California did not jo…
The HIPAA Journal has updated its compilation of HHS OCR breach portal data (October 2009 to August 2026, data pulled October 10, 2026). It shows a record 772 large healthcare breaches (500+ individuals) in 2025, after a sharp rise between 2018 and 2021 driven by ransomware. From January to April 2026, 252 large breaches were reported, 9.…
Conduent has agreed to an $80 million settlement of the consolidated class action In Re Conduent Business Services Data Breach Litigation, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 16, 2026 and confirmed in an 8-K filing with the SEC (infosecurity-magazine.com). The suit stems from the 2024 breach at Condu…
In July 2026, 77 large healthcare data breaches (500+ individuals) were reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a 10% month-over-month increase and the third consecutive monthly rise. At least 33,485,970 individuals were affected, up 642% from June and 154% above the 12-month average. January-July 2026 totals 67.4 million affec…
iRhythm Technologies, maker of the Zio wearable ECG monitor, has had a June 2026 data breach confirmed at roughly 8.18 million individuals, according to the Oregon Attorney General breach list. This is close to its entire customer base of about 8 million patients in the US and Europe. The company first identified unauthorized access on Ju…
Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians, a large physician-owned primary care group based in Westerville, Ohio, with more than 80 locations, disclosed a breach affecting about 1.4 million current and former patients. In August 2026, an unauthorized third party used a voice phishing (vishing) attack to obtain credentials that gave access to i…