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German, Ukrainian police crack down on Russian ransomware gang targeting healthcare
Police in Germany and Ukraine raided a Russian cybercriminal gang using DoppelPaymer ransomware and associated with Evil Corp, detaining several suspects and seizing evidence, Fox Business reported March 6. -
New York medical center notifies patients of EHR data breach
Jamestown, N.Y.-based The Chautauqua Center is notifying patients that some of their protected health information was compromised when its medical records provider WebPT experienced an unauthorized disclosure, WRFA reported March 6. -
Ransomware gang posts breast cancer patient photos from Pennsylvania health network to dark web
BlackCat ransomware gang posted screenshots of patient diagnoses and pictures of breast cancer patients undressed from the waist up from Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network, BankInfoSecurity reported March 6. -
Virginia hospital notifies patients of data breach
Richmond, Va.-based Henrico Doctors' Hospital is notifying 990 patients that some of their protected health information was compromised in a data breach. -
Georgia health system's operations disrupted by cyberattack
A cyberattack disrupted Warner Robins, Ga.-based Houston Healthcare's operations; the health system was able to remain open and care for patients using its backup processes and downtime procedures. -
3 ways to prevent attacks from ransomware gang Royal, according to FBI, CISA
Royal is one of the major ransomware gangs targeting healthcare, and the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency gave tips for averting its attacks. -
LCMC Health deploys AWS ransomware recovery tool for Epic EHR
New Orleans-based LCMC Health partnered with IT company Sapphire Health to use Amazon Web Services to deploy a ransomware recovery tool to the health system's Epic EHR. -
Kentucky hospital to spend $2.5M on cybersecurity upgrade
Russell Springs, Ky.-based Russell County Hospital's board approved $2.5 million in funding for a cybersecurity upgrade, WJRS News reported March 1. -
MedusaLocker ransomware gang targeting US healthcare, HHS warns
Russian-based MedusaLocker ransomware group is upping its tactics and the HHS is warning healthcare organizations to "holistically require" multiple levels of access and authentication controls to defend against this group. -
Community Health Systems estimates 1 million patients affected by data breach
Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems said about 1 million of its patients may have been affected by a recent data breach. -
Healthcare had most ransomware attacks in '22, FBI says
The FBI says healthcare suffered more ransomware attacks than any other industry in 2022, though the agency may have helped stop more, BankInfoSecurity reported -
Killnet possibly behind the website crashes of 9 Danish hospitals
Russian hacking group Killnet, which disrupted hospital and health system websites across the U.S. in February, might be behind an attack on nine Danish hospitals, The Register reported Feb. 28. -
Anonymous call informs Virginia hospital of data breach
An anonymous individual called Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare to notify the hospital that a PDF copy of a Medicare remittance report for Sentara's lab services was uploaded to an Adobe Acrobat website. -
Cyberattack 'credit negative' for Tallahassee Memorial, Moody's says
The February cyberattack on Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare will be "credit negative" for the health system, Moody's said in a Feb. 27 report. -
Can AI overcome healthcare's cybersecurity hurdles? 3 experts weigh in
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been used for years to help hospitals and health systems combat cybersecurity threats, but with hackers getting more sophisticated, chief information security officers say AI will need to make improvements to its algorithms and training sets to become vital tools for hospitals information security programs. -
Texas surgical hospital facing lawsuit for July data breach
A lawsuit alleges that Lubbock (Texas) Heart & Surgical Hospital had inadequate cybersecurity practices in place when a July data breach compromised the protected health information of 23,379 current and former patients, Class Action reported Feb. 24. -
Six lawsuits filed against New Jersey hospital
Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Medical Center has been hit with five more class-action lawsuits over a December cyberattack that affected nearly 618,000 patients, bringing the total to six, New Jersey Law Journal reported. -
Lawsuits filed over ransomware attack affecting 3.3 million patients
Los Angeles-based Regal Medical Group and its affiliates are facing multiple lawsuits over a ransomware attack that affected 3.3 million of their patients, HIPAA Journal reported. -
Arkansas health system faces lawsuit regarding its November data breach
A lawsuit alleges that Mena Regional Health System had inadequate cybersecurity practices in place when a November data breach compromised the protected health information of 84,814 people. -
Providence's pivotal move for cybersecurity operations
Providence is building a global IT enterprise by employing thousands of people in Hyderabad, India, to support the U.S.-based operations for multiple functions, including cybersecurity.
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