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75% of cyberattacks disrupt patient care
A survey of 1,100 cybersecurity, engineering, IT and networking professionals from healthcare organizations reported that 60 percent of cyberattacks have had a moderate or substantial impact on care delivery. -
Hospital Sisters, Prevea Health experiencing systemwide outage
Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System and Green Bay, Wis.-based Prevea Health are experiencing sporadic phone access and have reported that their websites and computer applications have been experiencing an outage since Aug. 27, the Green Bay Press Gazette reported. -
Healthcare Innovation: A Safe and Secure Approach
Six Focus Areas to Address the Top Security Challenges Facing Healthcare Organizations Today. -
Why hospitals should prepare for a month of downtime after cyberattack
The Joint Commission says hospitals and health systems should prepare to be on downtime for at least a month following a cyberattack, The Wall Street Journal reported. -
Crozer Health heals systems after ransomware attack
Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health confirmed to Becker's that its computer systems are back online after an Aug. 3 ransomware attack on its parent company, Prospect Medical Holdings, rendered them offline. -
Texas hospital alerts 350,000 patients to data breach
San Antonio-based CentroMed is reporting a data breach affecting 350,000 individuals, according to a filing with the HHS. -
Mississippi health system, clinics still reeling from cybersecurity incident
Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System, its three hospitals and its medical clinics are still resorting to paper records as the organization was forced to take its systems offline due to a cyberattack, BankInfoSecurity reported Aug. 24. -
Connecticut hospital nurse says ransomware attack has affected payroll
A Eastern Connecticut Health Network nurse says staff are doing their best to make sense of their paychecks as their systems are still down due to a ransomware attack that started Aug. 3, WFSB reported Aug. 24. -
Ransomware gang reportedly selling Prospect Medical patient data
A ransomware gang is auctioning off Social Security numbers, passport information and health data from more than 500,000 patients and employees of Culver City, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings, CyberNews reported Aug. 24. -
Hospitals, health systems experiencing cybersecurity incidents
Here are seven hospitals and health systems dealing with cyberattacks Becker's has reported on since Aug. 9: -
Appeals court rejects data privacy lawsuit against UChicago Medicine, Google
A federal appeals court has rejected a class-action lawsuit against University of Chicago Medicine and Google that claimed their predictive analytics partnership violated patient privacy. -
Tampa General faces 3 data breach lawsuits
Tampa (Fla.) General is facing three lawsuits for a May 31 data breach that affected 1.2 million patients, Florida Record reported Aug. 22. -
How much health systems are paying to settle Pixel lawsuits
Hospitals and health systems around the country are being sued for their use of the Meta Pixel, which plaintiffs say shared their protected health information with the tech giant, allowing it to tailor ads based on their medical conditions. -
40 million patients affected by healthcare data breaches in first half of 2023
A report from cybersecurity vendor Critical Insight found that 40 million patients' medical information has been involved in data breaches so far this year; at this rate, 2023 will break the record for most individuals affected in breaches. -
Cybersecurity in Distributed Care: The C-Suite’s Guide to Balancing Increased Patient Access & Heightened Risk
cybersecurity has become a top-of-mind issue for the healthcare C-suite. Distributed care delivery models — which bring care to patients virtually or physically, outside of traditional care facilities — are complicating the cyber landscape. While this care model can greatly improve patients’ access to care, it also creates a larger attack surface for cybercriminals to target and increases an organization’s cybersecurity risks. -
Systems taken offline at Mississippi health system due to cyberattack
Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System has taken some of its internal systems offline as it deals with a cyberattack. -
Healthcare data breach lawsuits on the rise
The monthly average of class-action lawsuits filed over health data breaches has nearly doubled since 2022, Bloomberg Law reported Aug. 22. -
Crozer Health to bring systems back online after ransomware attack
Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health said its computer systems that handle patient records, which were forced offline due to an Aug. 3 ransomware attack, should be back online and fully operational starting Aug. 22, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. -
Kentucky health system falls victim to massive MOVEit breach
Louisville, Ky.-based UofL Health confirmed that it has been affected by the data breach on popular file transfer tool MOVEit, which has affected millions of people across a variety of industries. -
Prospect Medical making progress in restoring systems after ransomware attack
Culver City, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings said it has made progress in restoring critical systems that were taken offline due to a ransomware attack that started Aug. 3, ABC News reported Aug. 18.
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