An Ohio state contractor said June 21 that Ohio Medicaid providers' data has been exposed in a data breach on a vendor's app, according to a June 22 report by Dayton Daily News.
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Scripps Health is being accused of failing to properly secure and protect patients' health information stored within the San Diego-based system's network, which a malware attack compromised April 29, according to court documents.
Old Bridge, N.J.-based Coastal Medical Group in April discovered its computer systems had been hacked and accessed by an unauthorized user for more than a month, Central Jersey reported June 18.
San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., recently began notifying nearly 69,000 patients that their protected health information was compromised by hackers.
St. Joseph's/Candler has switched to backup operation methods, including paper documentation, after a ransomware attack forced the Savannah, Ga.-based health system's computers offline June 17, it said in a Facebook post.
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Burlington, Vt.-based UVM Health Network is still tallying the costs of an October 2020 ransomware attack that shut down its IT systems delayed patient care, local CBS affiliate WCAX reported.
South Texas Health System began notifying 6,761 patients their data had been exposed because an employee emailed their emergency department visit information to an unknown recipient.
A public database exposed more than 1 billion CVS Health records, according to a June 16 report by ABC News.
President Joe Biden met with Russian President Vladmir Putin on June 16 to ask Mr. Putin for help in crushing growing ransomware attacks in the U.S., according to a June 16 report by The Wall Street journal.
Putting an end to ransomware and hackers has clawed its way up the political agenda and was the star at several international meetings in the last week, according to a June 16 report by The Wall Street Journal.