Cyberattacks in the healthcare industry have skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic, with 20 percent of Americans having a healthcare provider hit by a cyberattack in the last 12 months.
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As healthcare data breaches are surging, so are ransom demands, with hackers asking for $4.6 million on average, according to an April 29 report published by BakerHostetler.
Scripps Health websites are still down after a May 1 cyberattack, and patients are turning to Facebook to see if their appointments and surgeries are still on.
More than 2 million people were affected by data breaches in April, nearly double the number affected in March.
Scripps Health continues to operate on downtime procedures following a May 1 cyberattack that prompted the San Diego-based health system to take its patient services offline, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
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San Diego-based Scripps Health has taken its patient services offline and is rescheduling some appointments after experiencing a cyberattack May 1, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
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.