Quest Diagnostics has restored its Quanum Lab Services Manager system following a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access, but the company is still investigating the full scope of the patient data accessed. In an Oct. 26 update, the Secaucus, N.J.-based laboratory…
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.
HHS will keep HIPAA civil monetary penalties at 2025 levels and skip its annual inflation adjustment for 2026, the department said in an Oct. 21 Federal Register notice. The freeze traces to last year’s federal government shutdown. The Bureau of…
Cleveland-based University Hospitals disconnected its systems from the internet after detecting unusual activity on its servers Oct. 22, which took certain digital services offline and disrupted its MyChart patient portal and public website. “While there is currently no impact to…
Secaucus, N.J.-based Quest Diagnostics is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a system used by certain clients to order laboratory tests and retrieve results. The company learned of the incident Oct. 21 and believes an unauthorized party accessed…
Moody’s Ratings found that 59% of the healthcare organizations it rates that suffered a cyber incident since 2020 were reached through a third-party vendor, compared with 40% across all sectors. Healthcare is the only sector where the third-party share has…
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Business services provider Conduent has agreed to pay $80 million to settle class action litigation over the third-largest healthcare data breach on record, which exposed data on about 62.2 million people. Conduent signed the settlement Oct. 16 with plaintiffs in…
Falls City, Neb.-based Community Medical Center shut down its computer network after a weekend cyberattack, prompting ambulances to take critical patients to other hospitals, MSC News reported Oct. 19. The attack appears to be the work of the Qilin hacker…
Ransomware attacks and unverified ransomware claims targeting U.S. healthcare organizations increased 64% in the third quarter of 2026 from the second quarter, an Oct. 15 report from cybersecurity research company Comparitech found. Here are 10 things to know from the…
Midland, Mich.-based MyMichigan Health is investigating claims of data theft made by a group calling itself MetaEncryptor, though the health system said it has found no evidence of unauthorized access to its systems or compromised patient information. The health system…
Five healthcare vendors disclosed in 2026 that breaches of their systems each affected more than 1 million people. Their reported totals add up to more than 30 million, led by Oracle Health at nearly 20 million. The incidents involve EHR,…