Alla Witte, a 55-year-old woman from Russia, has been indicted for her alleged role in developing code for hacker group Trickbot, according to a June 9 report by Bloomberg.
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.
Nuvolo, a cloud-based workplace communication platform, secured $32 million to improve its cybersecurity technologies, the company announced June 9.
Louisville, Ky.-based Humana is being sued over a data breach last fall that exposed the personal information of about 65,000 of its health plan members, according to court documents.
Data breaches on the Colonial Pipeline and meat-processing company JBS have brought nationwide attention to cyberattacks. Yet 34 percent of data breaches are concentrated in the healthcare industry, according to a June 7 report by software company ForgeRock.
U.S. law enforcement confirmed that they were able to recover $2.3 million paid in Bitcoin to the hacker group behind the Colonial Pipeline attack, according to a June 7 report by CNBC.
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A U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska judge preliminarily approved a settlement June 4 over a Nebraska Medicine data breach in fall 2020 that exposed tens of thousands of patients' protected health information, according to court documents.
The Biden administration intends to rein in ransomware attacks by removing the cloak of anonymity surrounding cryptocurrency payments as President Joe Biden prepares to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week, according to a June 4 report by The…
Despite there being patients who struggle to get access to their complete health records, their data often is shared with insurance companies, pharmacies and big tech without them even knowing, according to Kenneth Mandl, MD, and Eric Perakslis, PhD.
A data breach on San Antonio-based CaptureRx that affected 1.6 million patients and 170 healthcare providers has sparked two nationwide class-action lawsuits, according to a June 4 report by San Antonio Express News.
The Wisconsin Department of Health notified 2,868 Medicaid recipients that their personal information may have been compromised after a hacker gained access to an email account, according to a June 4 We Are Greenbay article, a CBS affiliate.