More than 1 million healthcare records were affected by data breaches in March, more than tripling those affected in February.
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.
A former employee at revenue cycle management vendor Med-Data uploaded patient information from Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System and University of Chicago Medicine sometime during or before September 2019, according to a March 31 Chicago Sun-Times report.
HIPAA protects a patient's personal health information, leaving many concerned that a vaccine passport would violate those protections.
In March, 36 organizations reported to HHS that 1,116,997 individuals were affected by data breaches.
The identities of Humana employees have been used to file fraudulent unemployment claims, according to a March 30 News6 report.
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Apple Valley (Minn.) Clinic, part of Minneapolis-based Allina Health, recently transitioned to the health system's EHR platform following a ransomware attack on its tech services vendor that exposed nearly 158,000 patients' information.
Cybercriminals have exploited a weakness in encryption software and have used it to deploy Mamba ransomware into computers, according to a March 23 news release from the FBI.
Atlanta-based Woolfson Eye Institute alerted patients March 29 that a laptop computer hosting its patient database was stolen in September, potentially exposing patients' personal information.
Village Plastic Surgery has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a potential violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule's Right of Access standard.
Lexington (N.C.) Medical Center, part of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Health, recently began notifying some patients that their protected health information was exposed during a security breach on its former vendor Healthgrades' platform.