Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Patients who worry about their electronic health records being compromised in a breach incident are three times more likely to withhold information from their physicians than individuals who don't share the same concern, according to a July 31 Journal of…

An individual broke into the Salvation Army Pleasant Grove Corps Community Center in Dallas, which serves as a walk-up COVID-19 testing site, and stole several items including a computer, according to a local CBS 11 report.

Children's Hospital of Colorado in Aurora began notifying 2,553 patients of a recent employee email phishing incident that may have exposed their private information.

Multiple employee email accounts from Freeport, Ill.-based FHN Memorial Hospital were hacked in February, according to a report in the Journal Standard.

Some rural Louisiana parish officials who received federally protected information on COVID-19 cases from the state's health department misused the sensitive data and violated HIPAA, the health department said in a report in The Advocate.

In July, 23 organizations reported to HHS a collective total of 1,101,829 individuals being affected by data breaches.

The FBI issued a warning July 28 about increasing Netwalker ransomware attacks, specifically targeting U.S. and foreign health agencies, private companies and governments.

Despite its push to advance health IT data sharing with HHS' new interoperability rules, the U.S. still has work to do regarding data security and privacy, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Don Rucker, MD.

Watertown, N.Y.-based Samaritan Medical Center has been using paper records for the past week as the hospital investigates a malware attack that began on July 25, according to a report from NNY 360, powered by Watertown Daily Times and Northern…

Philips reported a possible security vulnerability with its DreamMapper software.