The Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, a public-private partnership comprising hundreds of entities such as hospitals and health systems, has released a toolkit to help providers assess and mitigate cybersecurity risks. The Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit includes…
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Two 17-year-old boys arrested by London police in connection with a cyberattack on a nursery school chain are being investigated for possible links to a Minnesota hospital hack, the Financial Times reported. The teens were placed into custody Oct. 7…
Police responded to a report of a shooting at Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag Hospital on the morning of Oct. 7, but determined there was no threat to the public, Los Angeles Times reported. Officers were dispatched to the hospital shortly…
The AHA has launched a redesigned Cybersecurity and Risk Advisory webpage to help healthcare organizations bolster defenses against evolving cyber and physical threats. The updated hub provides centralized access to cybersecurity and risk news, resources, expert insights and advisory services,…
The American Hospital Association and FBI are urging hospitals and health systems that are Oracle customers to “immediately” fix a security flaw that cybercriminals are likely already leveraging to hack into networks. The security gap in the Oracle E-Business Suite…
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The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit organization that works to share threat intelligence, issued an alert Oct. 1 regarding LockBit 5.0, a ransomware variant that represents an elevated risk to healthcare and other enterprises. The variant is…
The American Hospital Association and Microsoft have introduced new and updated offerings for rural hospitals as part of the latter’s “Rural Health Resiliency” program. The program provides free and discounted services to eligible designated critical access hospitals and rural emergency…
A federal judge has allowed several claims to move forward in a lawsuit accusing Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago of failing to protect patient data in a 2024 cyberattack that compromised the personal and medical information of about 791,784 people.…
New York City-based Columbia University Irving Medical Center has agreed to a $600,000 settlement over a data breach. Plaintiffs sued the academic medical center in 2024, alleging the organization failed to protect their personally identifiable and protected health information after…
A federal judge has ruled that parts of a class-action lawsuit against St. Louis-based Ascension over a ransomware attack in 2024 can move forward, while other claims will be dismissed. The lawsuit, filed in May 2024 by former patients, accuses…