Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

This episode features Sunil Dalani, Chief Information and Transformation Officer & Chief Cyber Security Officer at Atlantic Health System. In this conversation, he discusses his work in each of his roles, his focus on leveraging technology to increase access to…

Boston-based Codman Square Health Center's systems were encrypted by ransomware, causing the protected health information of 10,161 patients to be compromised.

The Hawaii Department of Health found that an unauthorized individual used an account belonging to a former medical certifier at a Hawaii hospital to access the electronic death registry system.

Russian ransomware gang BlackChat has posted more photos of patients from Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network to the dark web, The (Allentown) Morning Call reported March 10.

Dorchester, Ma.-based Codman Square Health Center is alerting 10,161 patients of a potential data breach following a ransomware attack that took place between Nov. 23 and Nov. 27.

More than 3 million patients were affected in a data breach involving telemental health company Cerebral, according to a notice to HHS' Office of Civil Rights.

Hospital and health system boards and executive steering committees are often briefed with  "technobabble," leaving cybersecurity in the hands of IT security teams, HHS said in a March 8 report.

Macomb County, Mich.-based Northeast Surgical Group notified 15,298 patients that some of their protected health information was compromised in a data breach. 

A physician has inappropriately accessed patient medical records from Grants Pass, Ore.-based Asante from 2014 to 2023. 

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.