A Missouri county's COVID-19 dashboard may have inadvertently posted a spreadsheet that included personally identifiable information, according to local ABC affiliate KBMC News.
Cybersecurity
CHI St. Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin (Texas) on June 19 began notifying patients that an unauthorized third party gained access to patients' protected health information in April.
The Kroger Co., based in Ohio, reported a hacking incident to HHS on June 18.
Providence, R.I.-based Care New England's internal computer systems are back up and running after a June 16 cyberattack caused nearly one week of system downtime, according to a June 22 Providence Journal report.
Netwalker, a ransomware operator that threatens to publish data online if ransoms aren't paid, hacked Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer-Keystone Health System and is auctioning off its data online, according to Cointelegraph.
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HHS has reported 12 data breaches this year where more than 100,000 patients' information was affected.
Providence, R.I.-based Care New England reported that its computer system began experiencing downtime on June 16, disrupting access to EHRs, digital communication and payroll, according to a report from WPRI, a local CBS affiliate.
The Department of Justice is seeing more cyberattacks against healthcare providers and companies in pursuit of COVID-19 data, among other things, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The email account of an employee at Oswego (N.Y.) Health was compromised June 16 by someone not associated with the health system.
A data security incident involving Care New England's computer system caused the Providence, R.I.-based health system's website to experience downtime on June 16, local CBS affiliate WPRI reports.