Along with the uptick in cybersecurity incidents at hospitals and health systems, patients have begun to take action in response to their data potentially being mishandled.
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.
As healthcare moves to further adopt internet-connected devices to deliver care, new cybersecurity threats require hospitals and health systems to deploy strategic mitigation strategies, according to Tony Howlett, chief information security officer at SecureLink.
Reno, Nev.-based Renown Health has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a potential violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule's Right of Access standard, which requires healthcare organizations to give patients copies of their medical records quickly and at a reasonable…
Ransomware group DoppelPaymer has published online two batches of protected health and personally identifiable information belonging to residents of Chatham County, N.C., according to a Feb. 9 Chatham News + Record report.
An Oldsmar, Fla.-based water-treatment plant was hacked Feb. 5 by an unauthorized user who tried to change the level of treatment chemicals in the city's water system to a dangerous level, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Medical Center are alerting patients of a malware attack last year on its IT systems that may have exposed their protected health information.
UPMC began notifying patients Feb. 5 that their protected health information may have been exposed through a data breach at the Pittsburgh-based health system's billing and legal services provider last year.
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.
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…