Cybersecurity

A Mankato (Minn.) Clinic employee exposed 535 patients' protected health information by mistakenly emailing the data to an external email account, the clinic said in a Sept. 20 notification. 

Below are seven hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking chief information security officers in the last month.

Ransomware group Hive recently stole patients' information from Sikeston-based Missouri Delta Medical Center and posted the data online, St. Louis Public Radio reported Sept. 17. 

President Joe Biden is preparing a slew of actions, including sanctions, to stop hackers from being paid ransoms using digital currency platforms, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 17. 

Six vendor's data breaches have exposed 9,970,368 patients and information from more than 200 hospitals and health systems in the last year.

Below are seven hospitals and health systems that have experienced nine cases of employees snooping patients' medical records in the last year.

Austin (Texas) Cancer Centers began notifying 36,503 patients of a data breach that forced it to shut down its IT networks, according to data shared with the Maine attorney general's office.

The Federal Trade Commission confirmed Sept. 15 that non-HIPAA covered entities such as health apps and connected devices that collect or use consumers' health information must comply with the agency's breach notification rule. 

An administrative officer at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C., is under investigation for tweeting details of a veteran's surgery and mocking the procedure as a waste of taxpayer money, according to a Sept. 14 Military Times report.

Portland, Ore.-based Southeast Health Center began notifying about 700 patients Sept. 14 that their personal information was recently exposed during a break-in at the facility.