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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 Department of Justice formed a task force to curb the rapid expansion of ransomware cyberattacks by targeting the entire criminal ecosystem surrounding them, according to an April 21 report by The Wall Street Journal.
Telemedicine systems are high value targets for cyberattacks because they host a treasure trove of patients' protected health information.
Concord, Calif.-based VEP Healthcare, an emergency medicine and hospital staffing firm, began notifying patients of a data breach after email hacks left patients' data exposed for more than a year.
When it comes to preferred passwords among healthcare industry employees, many are choosing weak options that can make their employer hospital or health system organization vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to an April 20 NordPass report.
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The American College of Emergency Physicians said that members of its emergency physician professional group and other professional healthcare organizations the group manages were affected in a data breach, according to an April 9 news release.
As healthcare data breaches boom, common workplace password practices can leave hospitals vulnerable to cyberattacks, a Keeper Security report finds.
Vermont Health Connect, the state's health insurance marketplace, has experienced at least 10 data breaches between November 2020 and February this year that have exposed users' information when logging into their accounts, according to an April 18 VTDigger report.
Since the start of 2021, 155 organizations reported to HHS that 12,406,655 individuals were affected by data breaches.
Medtronic formed a new partnership with Internet-of-Things cybersecurity startup Sternum to resolve vulnerabilities related to the company's pacemakers that could result in hacking attacks, according to an April 16 TechCrunch report.