Cybersecurity

Home medical equipment provider AdaptHealth disclosed that a June cyberattack exposed personal and health information belonging to more than 4.1 million patients, according to a filing with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. The company said the breach stemmed from…

Labcorp will pay more than $2.28 million to a coalition of 44 attorneys general to resolve a multistate investigation into the 2019 data breach at its former debt-collection vendor, American Medical Collection Agency. The breach occurred at AMCA and potentially…

LHC Group, a home health and hospice provider owned by UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, has disclosed a data breach tied to a vishing attack that exposed patient information. LHC Group said it became aware April 7 that an employee may have…

Fresenius Medical Care is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited number of its internal systems.  The incident has not affected the company’s medical devices, patient care, manufacturing operations or business continuity, according to a Sept. 22…

McKesson said unauthorized access and data exfiltration tied to a cybersecurity incident was limited to certain third-party applications affecting a subset of customers within its Oncology & Multispecialty business. The company said in a Sept. 21 update that the incident…

The fear that AI will hollow out healthcare cybersecurity careers is not one Anahi Santiago shares — but she recently got a close-up look at how the anxiety is landing on the people around her. Ms. Santiago’s executive assistant, who…

Hospital margins have narrowed considerably since the pandemic, but cybersecurity budgets have kept climbing — and health system IT leaders say they are now facing sharper questions from their CFOs about why. The tension is already showing up in the…

Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reintroduced legislation that would establish minimum federal cybersecurity standards for healthcare organizations and provide $1.3 billion to help hospitals strengthen their defenses. The senators reintroduced the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act,…

Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center did not pay a ransom in connection with the cyberattack that disrupted its systems in February, according to officials. UMMC Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs LouAnn Woodward, MD, told SuperTalk Mississippi the state did…

Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has restored MyChart in read-only mode as it continues recovering from a cybersecurity incident that began Sept. 1. Patients can now view their health information in the portal, though scheduling and messaging features remain unavailable. The…