Healthcare ransomware attacks jumped 328 percent in the second quarter of this year, despite a drop in the attacks globally, according to the 2022 midyear update of the "SonicWall Cyber Threat Report."
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.
Allegheny Health Network notified patients July 29 about a May phishing attack that compromised the protected health information of 8,000 patients.
Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System notified patients of a May data breach at its billing services vendor that compromised the protected health information of 31,573 patients, Boise Dev reported July 27.
Several health systems have faced lawsuits regarding data breach incidents.
The average cost of a data breach for a healthcare organization is $10.1 million, according to IBM's annual cost of data breach report.
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Amazon Web Services Marketplace will now offer cloud-based disaster recovery service OpSus Recover in its digital catalog.
Patients want providers to give them the option to opt-out or into data sharing, according to a patient survey from the American Medical Association.
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center issued an alert July 21 about an increase in web application attacks on the healthcare sector.
Plymouth, Mass.-based Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and human resources management company Ultimate Kronos Group are being sued for a December 2021 ransomware attack that compromised patients' protected health information and a number of health systems' payroll systems.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released new guidelines to help agencies comply with HIPAA's security rule governing electronic protected health information.