Knoxville, Tenn.-based Tennova Healthcare said it has been affected by a third-party data breach that hit its parent company Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems.
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
A lawsuit filed April 3 alleges that Dallas-based Steward Health Care System's website used a Meta pixel tracking tool that sent some patient information to Meta and Google, Class Action reported April 10.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights said it has launched an investigation into a February IT security incident that occurred at Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare, WTXL Tallahassee reported April 10.
HHS' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center is warning healthcare organizations to look out for flood distributed-denial-of-service attacks that could shut down their websites.
A cyberattack disrupted the IT network of Rushville, Ill.-based Culbertson Memorial Hospital, WGEM reported.
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Six hospitals in Alabama said they have been affected by a third-party data breach that hit its parent company Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, Al.com reported April 6.
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health said many of its current and former Catholic Health Initiatives, Centura Health and MercyOne facilities were affected by last year's ransomware attack on the health system.
Software giant Microsoft received a court order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York that will allow the company to disrupt infrastructure used by ransomware gangs during hospital attacks.
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued an analysis of the pro-Russian hacktivist group KillNet.
Two health system IT leaders have been honored for cybersecurity excellence.