A bill collector fell victim to a ransomware attack in February, potentially exposing the health information of more than 1.9 million patients, the federal government reported.
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.
A data breach involving a third-party benefits administrator affected 130,922 health plan members, including employees of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Wake Forest University, according to a July 1 submission to the HHS Office of Civil Rights.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to hire a chief information security officer by the end of July, FedScoop reported July 7.
Corpus Christi, Texas-based Christus Spohn Health System notified patients of a May data breach that compromised the protected health information of 15,000 patients, ABC-affiliate KIII-TV reported July 11.
Strong cybersecurity architecture and threat management are essential to safeguarding internal and external access to healthcare organizations' systems, especially as those systems may harbor unknown vulnerabilities.
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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.