As ransomware attacks persist, the federal government is developing recommendations for companies on how to respond to an attack. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recommended hospitals to follow these seven steps:
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.
The Health Sector Coordinating Council is a network of healthcare organizations that guides policies and strategies for issues facing the industry, such as mitigating data breaches on hospitals. In an open letter to President Joe Biden, the council urged him…
Although paying ransom to hackers is not recommended, some hospitals and health systems have made the tough choice to pay a ransom to restore their networks quicker.
Cancer Centers of Southwest Oklahoma recently began notifying 8,000 patients that their protected health information has been compromised by a security breach on the Lawton-based centers' cloud vendor.
Since June 2020, 11 organizations reported to HHS that a total of more than 20 million individuals were affected by data breaches.
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Five Rivers Health Centers in Dayton, Ohio, recently began notifying 155,748 patients that their protected health information had been exposed for two months due to an email phishing attack.
More than a month after a ransomware attack hit Scripps Health and disrupted its IT systems for weeks, CEO Chris Van Gorder has penned an op-ed in The San Diego Union-Tribune to detail the events and call on greater collaboration…
The COO of an Atlanta-based healthcare network security company has been arraigned on charges related to a cyberattack on Gwinnett Medical Center in 2018, according to a June 10 Department of Justice news release.
Responsible for one-third of the 203 million U.S. ransomware attacks in 2020, the Ryuk ransomware gang is the most prolific in the world and has targeted at least 235 hospitals, according to a June 10 Wall Street Journal report.
There has been an increase in data breaches caused by employee-related mishaps, both with malicious intent and without. Three chief information security officers shared with Becker's their best tip for avoiding cybersecurity mishaps by employees: