The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency found an Iranian government-backed hacker group has been exploiting Fortinet and Microsoft vulnerabilities in ransomware attacks against hospitals and healthcare organizations, according to a Nov. 17 joint cybersecurity advisory.
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Some patient services are still being canceled more than a week after Portsmouth-based Southern Ohio Medical Center discovered it was the victim of a cyberattack, according to a Nov. 17 Facebook post.
Indianapolis-based Eskenazi Health began notifying more than 1.5 million patients and employees that their data may have been exposed after hackers leaked protected health information to the dark web Fox affiliate WXIN reported Nov. 17.
Some appointments are still being canceled at Portsmouth-based Southern Ohio Medical Center six days after discovering it was the victim of a cyberattack, the hospital said in a Nov. 16 Facebook post.
Washington D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center began notifying 1,193 patients that their protected health information may have been exposed during a 2020 email incident, according to data the hospital reported to HHS' data breach portal Nov. 1.
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Wilmington, N.C.-based New Hanover Regional Medical Center, an affiliate of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health, shut down its Twitter account after a hacker took it over, ABC affiliate WWAY reported Nov. 15.
A cyberattack on Portsmouth-based Southern Ohio Medical Center is forcing it to continue to cancel appointments five days after the hospital discovered the breach, according to a Nov. 15 Facebook post.
Portsmouth-based Southern Ohio Medical Center is continuing to cancel some appointments because its computer systems are down following a cyberattack, according to a Nov. 14 Facebook post.
Operations at Franklin, Ind.-based Johnson Memorial Health are nearly back to normal after hackers launched a ransomware attack six weeks ago, the Daily Journal reported Nov. 12.
Portsmouth-based Southern Ohio Medical Center is canceling some appointments because of continued system downtime following a cyberattack, according to Nov. 11 and 12 Facebook posts by the hospital.