More than 2 million people were affected by data breaches in April, nearly double the number affected in March.
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.
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.
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.
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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.