Privacy Monday – August 17, 2015: Three Bytes For End Of Summer

It's Privacy Monday again – and summer is winding down.

Here are three bytes of privacy/security information to start your week:

1. House Committee Releases HHS Breach Investigation

If you are subject to HIPAA and the oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), schadenfreude will probably best describe your reaction.

A report recently released by the House Energy & Commerce Committee reveleaed that hackers have breached at least five divisions of HHS — including the FDA — in the last three years.

"What we found is alarming and unacceptable," committee Chairman Fred Upton, Michigan Republican, and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy, Pennsylvania Republican, said in a joint statement. "At a time when sensitive information is held by so many in the public and private sectors, Americans should not have to worry that the U.S. government is left so vulnerable to attack."