Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health and Chapel Hill School of Medicine begin notifying 10,832 patients that their data may be exposed in a data breach.
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 skyrocketed amid the pandemic when hospitals increased their use of remote work and moved more hospital data online, according to a July 21 report by cybersecurity consulting firm CynergisTek.
A top FBI official told Congress that lawmakers should not make ransomware payments illegal as it tracks 100 active ransomware groups.
Hackers aren't always hidden away by international borders and anonymous identities. Sometimes employees' wrongdoing can transpire under a hospital's roof.
Below are seven hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking chief information security officers in the last month.
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At an average of $9.23 million per incident, healthcare leads as the top industry for the most expensive data breach costs, according to IBM.
A former employee of Tampa General urgent care has been accused of taking photos of some patients' driver's licenses and credit card information, according to a July 27 WTSP report.
UC San Diego Health began notifying patients July 27 of an employee email security event that may have exposed their protected health information.
The decision to pay a ransom to hackers falls on the organization that has become victim of an attack, but as ransomware attacks rise so have concerns and calls for a ban on payments to try to prevent them from…
Fort Myers-based Florida Heart Associates is operating at about 50 percent of its capacity after a May ransomware attack on its computer and IT systems, according to a July 25 Fox 4 News report.