Cybersecurity

The average cost of a data breach reached a new global high in 2023, but it was still less than half the average healthcare data breach cost, a July 24 IBM report found.

The personal health information of 612,000 Medicare beneficiaries has been breached from CMS contractor Maximus Federal Services.

An employee email account from Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health was accessed by an unauthorized party, potentially breaching some patients' protected health information. 

Several hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are facing lawsuits regarding data breach incidents that compromised patients' protected health information.

Florida is requiring all state employees to undergo cybersecurity training through the CyberSecureFlorida Training Initiative, according to a July 27 report from FOX 13 News.

After a series of data breaches resulting from third-party MOVEit software, industry group Health 3rd Party Trust Initiative is getting together with hospitals to crack down on vendor breaches.

The MOVEit data breach continues to take more victims across a variety of industries, including hospitals and health systems across the U.S., which is causing the number of individuals whose data has been stolen to rise to 34.5 million, TechCrunch…

The MOVEit data breach that has affected millions of people across a variety of industries has claimed another health system victim: Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center, WFAA reported July 20. 

A patient and a former employee of Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare filed a lawsuit against the health system after it experienced a cyber event that may have compromised individuals' protected health information, ABC affiliate WHAS reported July 26.  

As healthcare data breaches continue to increase, cybersecurity company Drata analyzed HHS data to determine which states were affected the most in 2022.