Cybersecurity

Healthcare websites continue to transmit patients' personal and health data to Big Tech companies, Bloomberg reported.

A nurse with Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health compared the 2022 ransomware attack on the health system to a "virus" that had the potential to be every bit as deadly.

Government officials have warned U.S. hospitals about the threat posed by ransomware gangs targeting patient data such as Clop and LockBit.

MUSC Health, based in Charleston, S.C., said patients' protected health information may have been compromised as its research support and services provider, Westat, was caught in the massive MOVEit hack.  

Healthcare data breaches reported to the HHS' Office for Civil Rights are set to double last year's total, Politico reported Oct. 17. 

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) is warning hospitals of NoEscape, a ransomware group that emerged in May 2023.

The Black Cat/AlphV ransomware group has claimed to have leaked 5TB of patients' and employees' information from Morrison (Ill.) Community Hospital, SecurityAffairs reported Oct. 15.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is requesting to pay a lower price for its planned 3-hospital acquisition from Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings as the hospitals deal with a six-week-long cyberattack, Yale News reported Oct. 13. 

An Illinois health system said it has terminated its relationship with its medical transcription service after that company experienced a data breach.

A 2020 ransomware attack at the Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network compromised 1,300 servers and cost the health system $65 million, local news outlet WCAX reported Oct. 12.