Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

The FBI has seized the website WeLeakInfo.com, which was known for selling access to billions of pieces of hacked information, according to ZDNet.

Adventist Health Simi Valley (Calif.) began alerting patients Jan. 6 that their protected health information may have been exposed in a phishing attack.

Amazon Web Services, IBM and Microsoft are among the big tech companies to make deals with hospitals and health systems to analyze patients' medical records in order to develop new solutions, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The bill to restore New Orleans' computer systems after a December 2019 cyberattack is currently about $7 million and continues to climb, Mayor Latoya Cantrell told local FOX affiliate WVUE.

North Platte, Neb.-based Great Plains Health is nearly recovered following a ransomware attack in November 2019 that encrypted the hospital's computers, according to local NBC affiliate KNOP.

South Portland, Maine-based Spectrum Healthcare Partners is notifying 11,308 patients of an email incident that may have exposed their protected health information.

Though just a few days old, the California Consumer Privacy Act — passed in 2018 and enacted Jan. 1 — has caused consumer privacy experts to question its potential. The bill is designed to give consumers more control over their…

Conversation-hacking is a new phishing technique where hackers infiltrate an existing email thread and pose as someone else in the conversation, such as a CEO, assistant or other employee, according to ZDNet.

As cyberattacks become more common, hospitals and health systems must become proactive in their approach to cybersecurity.

A vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system could allow cybercriminals to breach or spy on computer networks if exploited, according to the National Security Agency and cited by The Wall Street Journal.