Tag: Phishing scam
Solara Medical Supplies to pay $3M to settle cyber violations
January 23, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, has announced a $3 million settlement with Solara Medical Supplies concerning potential violations of HIPAA Security and Breach Notification rules caused by a phishing incident.
In November 2019, OCR received a breach report concerning a phishing attack in which an unauthorized third party gained access to the email accounts of eight Solara employees between April and June 2019, resulting...
Lincare settles employee data breach claims
May 17, 2018Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Lincare will pay $875,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by employees whose information may have been exposed in a “phishing attack.”The lawsuit stems from an incident on Feb. 3, 2017, when a cyber-criminal posing as a high-level Lincare executive emailed a Lincare human resources employee and requested W-2 information for all employees. The HR employee responded with attached W-2 data for a certain number of employees of Lincare and its affiliates.On Feb. 10, 2017, Lincare...