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Mike Roberts promoted to Appalachian Regional's chief information security officer role
Lexington, Ky.-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare is promoting current Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of IT Mike Roberts to chief information security officer, according to Oct. 3 reporting in The Register Herald. -
LifeBridge Health to pay $9.5M to settle data breach lawsuit
Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit over a May 2018 data breach that compromised the protected health information of 530,000 patients, Top Class Action reported Oct. 3. -
CommonSpirit IT security incident disrupts hospital operations
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health was the victim of an IT security incident that is impacting its facilities across the country, Kitsap Sun reported Oct. 3. -
VA investigating data breach that compromised sensitive credentials, source codes
A federal contractor published source codes containing sensitive credentials from the Department of Veterans Affairs, FedScoop reported Sept. 29. -
Third-party risk in healthcare: a continuing crisis
Cybersecurity incidents at public and private companies have become alarmingly frequent and a large portion of them are due to third-party data breaches. -
2,857 Geisinger patients affected by 3rd-party data breach
Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger is notifying patients about a ransomware attack at a mail service vendor that has compromised the protected health information of 2,857 patients, CNHI News reported Sept. 28. -
Seattle Children's notifies 6,750 patients of third-party data breach
Seattle Children's is alerting patients about a ransomware attack at a mail service vendor that has compromised the protected health information of 6,750 patients. -
Report: 63% of orgs have unfilled cybersecurity positions
Sixty-three percent of organizations have an unfilled cybersecurity position, up from 55 percent last year, according to the "State of Cybersecurity 2022" report from ISACA and LookingGlass. -
Magellan Health settles data breach lawsuit for $1.43M
Magellan Health will pay $1.43 million to settle a lawsuit over a May 2019 phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information of 273,000 patients, Top Class Action reported Sept. 28. -
Connecticut hospital warns patients about third-party data breach
Stafford Springs, Conn.-based Johnson Memorial Hospital is alerting patients that a data breach at a law firm potentially compromised some of its patient data, Journal Inquirer reported Sept. 28. -
Humana's 3rd-party vendor breach affects 22,767 patients
Choice Health, the company used to help Humana sell its products, experienced a data breach that resulted in the protected health information of 22,767 patients being compromised. -
Texas hospital restores clinical systems 3 weeks after cyberattack
Richmond, Texas-based OakBend Medical Center has almost completely restored its clinical systems after a Sept. 1 ransomware attack took them offline. -
Home healthcare company fires, reprimands employees for HIPAA violation
Right At Home, a home healthcare service, has fired one employee and reprimanded another due to a HIPAA violation, the Argus Leader reported Sept. 27. -
Feds warn against Chinese-backed hackers targeting healthcare organizations
Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as APT41 are a threat to the U.S. healthcare industry, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned Sept. 22. -
Hacker group publishes stolen data from French hospital
One of the most active ransomware groups targeting the healthcare sector, LockBit, has published 12 gigabytes of patient and staff data from a 1,000-bed French hospital, Bank Info Security reported Sept. 26. -
5 highest-paying cybersecurity jobs
Here are five of the highest-paying cybersecurity jobs, according to a Sept. 26 Fortune analysis of salary data. -
How 10 health system IT execs explain the cyberthreat to their boards
With hospital data breaches and ransomware attacks happening with alarming regularity, cybersecurity is a big area of concern for health systems. But it's not always the most straightforward topic to understand. -
Lawsuit claims Mon Health didn't protect patients from data breach
Morgantown, W.Va.-based Mon Health is being sued over a December 2021 data breach, The (Morgantown) Dominion Post reported Sept. 24. -
Data breach lawsuit against East Tennessee Children's Hospital dropped
A lawsuit filed against Knoxville-based East Tennessee Children's Hospital for a March 2022 data breach was dropped, Knox County News reported Sept. 21. -
Georgia hospital confirms cybersecurity incident
Tifton, Ga.-based Southwell confirmed it was the victim of a cybersecurity incident after a report claimed the health system had been involved in a ransomware attack.
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