Fertility app Premom was charged by the FTC for sharing users' sensitive information with third parties, and sharing sensitive health data to Google.

An unauthorized user accessed online prescription company PillPack's customer email addresses and passwords to log into their online accounts.

As abortion access is debated within the United States, concerns have risen over the ability to protect patient privacy, including on mobile devices.

ZOLL Medical has notified its customers of a data breach affecting customers' protected health information (PHI) that occurred in late January.  

Online counseling service BetterHelp has received a proposed order from the FTC banning the company from sharing users' private health information.

The growing number of successful cyberattacks has urged healthcare organizations to take steps in protecting their systems from threat actors.

FTC takes enforcement action against GoodRx and claims GoodRx failed to notify consumers of unauthorized disclosures of personal health information. 

The Pentagon officially took over the federal background-check system, with a newly created Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) inside the Defense Department now charged with reducing a massive backlog of clearances for employees and contractors, according to a news report.

Hospitals need to do a better job of encrypting patient data to address the spiraling scale of security breaches, concludes a new report from healthcare IT security company Redspin. The report also notes that healthcare organizations need to bridge the gap between the demand from doctors and nurses using their own devices in the workplace (BYOD) and enacting the necessary security measures to ensure patient information contained on those devices is protected if they are lost or stolen.