Hospitals, health systems experiencing cybersecurity incidents

Here are seven hospitals and health systems dealing with cyberattacks Becker’s has reported on since Aug. 9:

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  1. Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System had to take some of its internal systems offline as it dealt with a cyberattack.
  2. 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.
  3. Morris (Ill.) Hospital & Healthcare Centers disclosed a data breach that affected 248,943 patients, according to a filing with the Maine Attorney General.
  4. Parkersburg, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center was also affected by the breach on MOVEit.
  5. Tifton, Ga.-based Tift Regional Health System said an unauthorized party copied files from its systems, breaching some patients’ Social Security numbers.
  6. Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital notified some of its research participants that some of their protected health information may have been posted to a public website.
  7. Patient data from Chicago-based Lurie Children’s Surgical Foundation was leaked due to a breach on its third-party electronic billing provider, NextGen Healthcare.
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