November 19, 2024
On October 22, the Department of Justice announced that Pennsylvania State University will pay $1.25 million to settle a False Claims Act (“FCA”) lawsuit accusing it of failing to comply with cybersecurity [...]
September 3, 2024
The DOJ’s Complaint Also Emphasizes Its Expectation That Contractors and Grantees Implement Appropriate Cybersecurity Measures By filing a Complaint-In-Intervention against the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. [...]
August 3, 2024
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently released its third ransomware-related settlement agreement in less than a year. Below we summarize each of the [...]
June 6, 2024
A Recent Settlement, and DOJ Intervention in an Ongoing Case, Highlight Cybersecurity as a False Claims Act Enforcement Priority The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) increasingly-active Civil Cyber Fraud Initiative has made [...]
May 2, 2024
In the most recent press release on the Change Healthcare cyberattack, parent company UnitedHealth Group (UHG) acknowledged that, “Based on initial targeted data sampling to date, the company has found files containing [...]
