Nashville, Ark.-based Howard Memorial Hospital reported hackers may have stolen files from its network during a cyberattack earlier this year.
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.
Healthcare cybersecurity is a rapidly changing industry as cybercriminals innovate and health IT teams work to improve their posture. Becker's reached out to five chief information security officers at the top hospitals and health systems across the country to project…
San Diego-based Scripps Health has agreed to pay $3.57 million to settle a lawsuit from victims of a May 2021 ransomware attack that led to a massive data breach, CBS8 reported Dec. 27.
Cybersecurity dominated healthcare news in 2022; high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks showed that healthcare organizations' cybersecurity postures are increasingly tied to their financial bottom line.
Lake Charles (La.) Health System is alerting its patients that in October, an unauthorized third party was able to access its network, chron.com reported Dec. 26.
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Healthcare IT services provider Avem Health Partners has notified 271,000 patients that their information may have been compromised due to a third-party hacking incident on IT company 365 Data Centers.
The threat of cyberattacks dominated IT news in 2022 and forced chief information security officers and CIOs to work closer together than ever before, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 30.
Clop, a ransomware group known for its role in the Accellion data breach, has changed its tactics to infect files disguised as medical documents and images, SCMedia reported Dec. 20.
Prairie Lakes Healthcare System notified 1,059 patients that their information may have been compromised due to a third-party data breach at its business associate and collections vendor, AAA Collections.
New York City-based One Brooklyn Health's hospitals are still relying on paper charting after a November cybersecurity incident caused three of its hospitals to shut down its EHR and IT systems, CNN reported Dec. 20.