Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity podcast network CyberWire has announced that Vikrant Arora will join its panel the Hash Table.

Phoenixville (Pa.) Hospital has fired an employee for accessing patient medical records without authorization, the Reading Eagle reported July 8. 

A U.S. House of Representatives panel plans to examine whether data companies and personal health apps are keeping patients' reproductive health data private in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, NBC reported July 8.

VCU Health disclosed they had recently learned that beginning as early as Jan. 4, 2006, information about transplant donors had accidentally been included in files for their transplant recipients and vice versa.

Heartland Healthcare Services, a pharmacy company owned by HCR-ManorCare and CVS Health, notified patients that an April data breach has compromised the protected health information of some customers. 

One of the nation's largest health insurance companies has contracted with cybersecurity firm IronNet to protect the private medical and personal data of its more than 17 million members, IronNet said July 6.

Hackers sponsored by North Korea's government have been using the Maui ransomware to target healthcare and public health services providers for the last year, according to the U.S. government.

Cybersecurity is a top priority for hospitals and health systems across the country, and information security professionals are highly sought after by healthcare organizations.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a new advisory about  ransomware group MedusaLocker that is responsible for attacking a broad range of U.S. targets. 

Shields Health Care Group, Baptist Health System, Resolute Health Hospital, Kaiser Permanente and Yuma Regional Medical Center were named in Wired's list of worst hacks and data breaches of 2022.