Columbus-based Ohio State University's state-funded pilot for veterans' mental healthcare experienced a data breach earlier this year before the program prematurely ended June 15, according to local NBC affiliate WCMH.
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.
Savannah, Ga.-based St. Joseph's/Candler has gotten its oncology services back on schedule following a June 17 ransomware attack, but is still working to bring its IT systems back online, according to a June 25 Savannah Morning News report.
Lewisville, Texas-based Hoya Optical Labs of America is notifying 3,259 patients that their protected health information has been stolen and posted online in a ransomware attack.
Louisville, Ky.-based UofL Health began notifying 42,465 patients of a data breach after it emailed their data to the wrong email address.
Ransomware payments are highly discouraged by the federal government, yet more than a third of healthcare organizations affected by attacks might be discreetly paying the ransom, according to a report by cybersecurity firm Sophos.
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Four class-action lawsuits have been filed against San Diego-based Scripps Health after an April 29 malware attack that exposed more than 147,000 patients' health information, according to a June 22 San Diego Union-Tribune report.
Marshalltown, Iowa-based Wolfe Eye Clinic began notifying 500,000 patients that their data was exposed in a ransomware attack on the chain's 40 locations across the state.
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.
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.