Ransomware group LockBit 2.0 claims to have breached cybersecurity company Mandiant, CyberScoop reported June 6.
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.
Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations globally increased by 94 percent year over year, according to a 2022 report from cybersecurity firm Sophos.
A story about the world's most common passwords was Becker's most-read cybersecurity story in May.
Cybersecurity experts have raised concerns about funding, lack of clinician involvement and "immaturity" of HHS' cybersecurity unit, HC3, Politico reported June 1.
A medical device company has issued a high-priority security warning about some of its products.
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A digital pharmacy company has reported a data breach affecting 27,846 individuals.
An IT specialist is facing federal charges after allegedly hacking into the network of a suburban Chicago healthcare company that had denied him employment.
Oakland, Calif.-based Alameda Health System reported that a data breach has potentially exposed the protected health information of 90,000 patients.
BJC HealthCare notified patients about a data breach that may have compromised the protected health information of some patients at its affiliated hospitals and service organizations.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Iranian government-backed hackers were behind an attempted cyberattack of the Boston Children's Hospital in 2021, Boston Herald reported June 1.