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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. -
How UPMC is protecting against 3rd party data breaches
Pittsburgh-based UPMC has been working with law enforcement agencies and regulators to respond to third-party data breaches, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Aug. 21. -
Harvard Pilgrim's parent company attributes $100M loss to ransomware attack
Point32Health, the parent of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, reported a $102.7 million operating loss for the first half of the year, which its chief financial officer largely attributed to an April ransomware incident that took place on its computer systems, The Boston Globe reported Aug. 18. -
Illinois hospital data breach affects 248,000 patients
Morris (Ill.) Hospital & Healthcare Centers disclosed a data breach that affected 248,943 patients, according to a filing with the Maine Attorney General. -
Medical data breaches cost healthcare $39B: Report
From 2017 to July 2023, data breaches have cost healthcare organizations more than $39 billion, according to a new report from Comparitech. -
Jefferson Health says data drive with PHI went missing
Jefferson Health's maintenance vendor informed the health system that a portable backup drive was missing from its DEXA scan device at its Jefferson Cherry Hill (N.J.) Hospital.
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