Hackers have posted thousands of files containing protected health information of patients at Leon Medical Centers and Nocona General Hospital to the dark web, according to a Feb. 5 NBC News report.
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Cyber threat actors with connections to China are targeting U.S. healthcare and genomic data by hacking and other extraction methods, according to a February alert issued by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
Two employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs made false representations and hid privacy and security risks tied to a 2016 artificial intelligence health data project between Flow Health and the agency, according to a recent VA Office of Inspector…
The Better Business Bureau is advising consumers not to post photos of their COVID-19 vaccine cards on social media after an uptick in scams and concerns about potential identify theft.
The FDA appointed University of Michigan computer science researcher Kevin Fu, PhD, to serve as the agency's first acting director of medical device cybersecurity, according to a Feb. 2 news release.
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Accelerated by the pandemic, hospitals are facing a growing number of cyberattacks coming from ransomware gangs, financial scammers and hackers backed by nation-states, according to a Feb. 2 Wall Street Journal report.
Cyberattacks on healthcare organizations are increasing as hackers find new security vulnerabilities and double down on tactics such as ransomware and phishing attempts, according to a Feb. 2 Wall Street Journal report.
Bethesda Hospital, part of Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health, said it recently terminated an employee for accessing patients' medical records and altering a home care patient's health order.
LSU Health Care Services Division recently learned that a September cyberattack affecting the Baton Rouge, La.-based health system and its partner hospital has extended to another partner hospital, according to a Jan. 29 WDSU report.
The Ramsey County government in Minnesota is notifying 8,700 clients of its Family Health Division that their data was exposed in a December ransomware attack, according to a Jan. 29 Pioneer Press report.