Corporate board members should be held more accountable to verify cybersecurity risks and ask questions about cyber efforts, governance experts told The Wall Street Journal.
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More than 710,000 patients may have had their information exposed as result of 44 data breach incidents reported in August, according to data from HHS' Office for Civil Rights database and cited by JD Supra.
As of Oct. 1, health insurance providers in Maryland must notify the Maryland Insurance Administration if patient information is exposed in a cybersecurity incident, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Seventy-one percent of data breaches at hospitals comprise financial or demographic information that may cause identity theft or fraud, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
After experiencing a ransomware attack Sept. 20, Gillette, Wyo.-based Campbell County Health's IT Director Matt Sabus said there has been no evidence that patient information was compromised, according to the Gillette News Record.
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More than half of chief information security officers believe having experienced a data breach is an advantage, rather than a liability, in discussions with potential employers, according to a recent Optiv Security report.
The most commonly cited reason for a data breach in August was either a hacking or IT incident, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Gillette, Wyo.-based Campbell County Health suspended new inpatient admissions and canceled some surgeries Sept. 20 due to a ransomware attack, according to a news release on the health system's website.
Albuquerque, N.M.-based Presbyterian Health Plan was notified by its managed care company vendor Magellan Health that more than 56,000 patients may have had their protected health information exposed in a phishing attack, according to the HIPAA Journal.
The medical data of more than 5 million U.S. patients and millions more globally can be accessed online by basic web browsers and free software programs, according to an investigation by ProPublica and German radio and TV network Bayerischer Rundfunk.