Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has filed a lawsuit against Change Healthcare, alleging the company violated state consumer protection and data security laws in connection with a 2024 data breach that affected nearly 2.2 million Iowa residents. Filed March 31,…
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Jackson (Ala.) Hospital is notifying 13,910 individuals that their data may have been breached in a cybersecurity incident involving a debt collector. The hospital said it discovered in late January that its patients’ information was compromised in a July 2024…
Hackers demand an average of $18.2 million after a healthcare ransomware attack, nearly six times more than the next-closest industry, according to a BakerHostetler analysis. Here are seven more things to know from the annual Data Security Incident Response Report,…
Gritman Medical Center in Moscow, Idaho, has resumed normal operations across its offices and clinics after a cybersecurity incident forced widespread closures, though some phone outages persist at rural locations. All Gritman offices and clinics reopened on regular schedules April…
Medtech company Stryker reported being “fully operational” across its manufacturing network after a March 11 cyberattack. The hack disrupted the firm’s internal Microsoft environment, causing health systems to temporarily disconnect from the company’s devices and delay procedures. A cybercriminal group…
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Nacogdoches (Texas) Memorial Hospital has begun notifying patients whose data may have been breached in a January cyberattack. The 161-bed hospital became aware of the incident Jan. 31, after a hacker compromised its computer network and information systems, according to…
New York City Health + Hospitals disclosed a data breach that may have exposed patients’ personal and health information after an unauthorized actor accessed its systems for more than two months. The public health system said it detected suspicious activity…
A former employee of New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine briefly accessed patient records for reasons unrelated to their job and without authorization. The organization reported to HHS in late February that 516 patients were ensnared in the data breach,…
A patient has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Trinity Health and Health Gorilla, alleging a data breach tied to a third-party data-sharing network may have affected about 300,000 individuals and exposed sensitive information. The complaint, filed March 20 in…
The American Hospital Association is pointing hospitals and health systems to an FBI alert warning that hackers connected to the Iranian government are trying to commit cyberattacks via Telegram. “The FBI said the cyber actors are using the Telegram messaging…