PHI Deletion Nets $337,750 Fine: This is a bit of an odd one: a Florida HIPAA business associate, USR Holdings, discovered that an unauthorized third party had access to its database for 3-4 months and deleted PHI of 2903 people. The normal problems were there: failure to conduct a risk assessment, no risk management plan, no system activity review, and no backups. The result was a $337,750 fine and a 2-year monitoring plan.
Here's the resolution agreement.