Cybersecurity

An employee working at Seattle-based Swedish Medical Center has been charged with identity and motor vehicle theft after officials said she stole the records from 39 patients to buy two cars and rent an apartment, The Everett Herald reported May…

In April, 41 organizations reported to HHS that 2,121,186 individuals were affected by data breaches.

A lawsuit seeking class-action status alleges that Google's COVID-19 contact tracing tool exposed system logs of millions of users' protected health information to potentially hundreds of third parties.

More than 70,000 people have been affected in a contact tracing data breach by a staffing firm that provided contact tracers to Pennsylvania, an April 30 investigation from Pittsburgh news outlet WPXI-TV uncovered.

A 2020 cyberattack campaign on medical equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms and IT companies involved with the COVID-19 vaccines' cold chain distribution system was much larger than IBM researchers initially thought. 

Cybersecurity officials from Amazon, Microsoft, the FBI and other major tech and government agencies are insisting the U.S. double down on ransomware protections as attacks against healthcare and government organizations escalate, according to an April 30 Wall Street Journal report. 

Cybersecurity experts know that cyberattacks against hospitals have erupted since the start of the pandemic. In March alone, more than 1 million patients' protected health information was breached.

The Wyoming Department of Health began notifying more than 164,000 people this week that their protected health information had been exposed and uploaded online by an employee.

The average ransomware payment increased 43 percent to $220,000 in 2021, according to an April 26 report by Coveware.

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service cyberattackers are targeting American companies to gain leverage for exploitation. To secure your hospital, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recommends 10 tips for users and administrators on implementing…