U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) are demanding answers from UnitedHealth Group following another cyberattack on one of the company’s subsidiaries. Here are six things to know:
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.
Cookeville (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center’s computer systems have been disrupted by a network security incident. The hospital announced the incident on its website, stating that its information system security team is working “around the clock to restore the affected systems…
Change Healthcare has increased the number of people estimated to be affected by a 2024 cyberattack to nearly 193 million. The UnitedHealth Group claims processing subsidiary revealed the number, a few million more than its last estimate, in a letter…
Healthcare had the most expensive data breaches for the 15th consecutive year, according to a new IBM report. Here are five things to know from the July 30 study that analyzed 600 breaches globally between March 2024 and February 2025:…
Lewiston, Maine-based Central Maine Healthcare is notifying patients of a data breach that may have compromised sensitive personal and medical information. The health system detected unusual activity in its information technology network on June 1 and launched an investigation. The…
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Healthcare providers have repaid nearly two-thirds of the loans disbursed by UnitedHealth Group following the 2024 cyberattack on its claims processing subsidiary, Change Healthcare. The healthcare giant distributed $9.03 billion in loans after the February 2024 ransomware attack on Change…
Cybersecurity group the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) is warning that Russia-linked threat actors may launch cyberattacks against U.S. and NATO infrastructure in response to a new U.S. weapons commitment to Ukraine. On July 14, the U.S. announced…
Kettering (Ohio) Health has confirmed that patient data was breached in a ransomware attack earlier this year. The 14-hospital system said in a July notice that an unauthorized party viewed or took certain files and folders between April 9 and…
Chinese-linked hackers breached several U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services, by exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft’s SharePoint platform, CBS News reported July 24. Here are six things to know…
The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning organizations of an emerging ransomware variant known as Interlock. Here are five…