Scam artists are targeting senior-living communities and low-income neighborhoods in what appears to be an elaborate ruse to commit identity theft and defraud Medicare, according to Bloomberg.

Hackers could disguise malware as patient protected health information in MRI and CT scan images saved in the digital imaging and communications in medicine file format, Bleeping Computer reports.

A cyberattack last July on Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health's employee email account system may have affected 278,016 patients' personal information, Spamfighter reports.

Blue Cross of Idaho is notifying members of a March 21 data breach that allowed an unauthorized user to gain access to the organization's online provider portal.

Microsoft emailed an unknown number of users April 12 across its Outlook, MSN and Hotmail platforms alerting them of a data breach that occurred between Jan. 1 and March 28, according to Wired.

Almost half of consumers (45 percent) believe their protected health information is more securely stored on their personal electronic devices than their healthcare providers', according to a Morphisec survey.

Ovia Health, a developer of fertility, pregnancy and parenting-tracking apps, shares user data with employers and insurers as a way to monitor employees' health, The Washington Post reports.

Columbia, S.C.-based Palmetto Health, now know as Prisma Health, was targeted in a phishing attack that may have put the information of 23,000 patients at risk, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center filed an appeal April 9, claiming the $4.3 million HIPAA fine that HHS imposed on the hospital was unlawful, according to GovInfoSecurity.com.

Hospitals and health systems within the U.S. account for around one-fourth of all U.S. cyberattacks, making healthcare the No. 1 industry targeted by data breaches, according to a survey from law firm BakerHostetler and cited by Corporate Counsel.

Most organizations (77 percent) do not have a cybersecurity incident response plan applied across their enterprise, according to a recent survey sponsored by IBM.  

Amazon has thousands of employees around the globe who are tasked with listening to and transcribing Alexa conversations to help enhance the virtual assistant's understanding of human speech, Bloomberg reports.

A new wire fraud scam is targeting employees at KVC Health Systems, a midsize nonprofit agency for child welfare based in Olathe, Kan., according to CNBC.

The evolution of technology and job automation has left 27 percent of U.S. workers feeling threatened regarding job security, according to a CNBC/SurveyMonkey poll.

Firefox is developing an anti-tracking feature that blocks sites from being able to track an individual based on their system configuration, The Verge reports.

Hackers assemble in plain sight on Facebook, where they trade ideas, stories and stolen credit card information in groups dedicated to cybercrime, according to a blog from Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, a commercial threat intelligence group.

The Veterans Health Administration is notifying 4,882 veterans who were treated at the Martinsburg (W.Va.) VA Medical Center that their personal health information may have been mailed out in letters to other patients, according to a news release emailed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Since 2014, more than 1.4 million Texans have had their health records stolen, making hospitals in the state most at-risk for cyberattacks, according to data from HHS and cited by Texas Public Radio.

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health notified about 12,000 patients of a Feb. 7 phishing attack, according to online newspaper MassLive.

Elizabethtown, Ky.-based Hardin Memorial Hospital reverted to manual operations over the weekend after experiencing a disturbance to its IT systems April 5, WAVE, an NBC affiliate, reports.