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Massive HIPAA Breach Exposes Over 500,000 Patients – Comstar Held Accountable

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has reached a settlement with Comstar, LLC, a Massachusetts-based billing and collection company for emergency ambulance services, in connection with a significant breach of protected health information (PHI). The breach, stemming from a ransomware attack, affected the electronic health records of 585,621 individuals and exposed vulnerabilities i…
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MyChesCo broke the news in on Sunday, June 1, 2025.
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