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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's will welcome hackers to its newly developed advisory board, Nextgov reported Nov. 10.
Portsmouth-based Southern Ohio Medical Center is diverting ambulances from its 248-bed hospital after it discovered hackers breached its computer networks, according to a Nov. 11 Facebook post by the hospital.
Although ransomware attacks on hospitals seem ubiquitous, most patients are unaware of attacks on hospitals despite the influence it has on them when choosing a hospital at which to receive care, a study says.