Cybersecurity

Fifty-one members of the Business Roundtable, an association of the CEOs of top U.S. companies, urged congressional leaders in a Sept. 10 letter to pass a "comprehensive consumer data privacy law."

Insurers may be encouraging ransomware attacks because these companies continue to pay attackers, according to a ProPublica investigation and cited by the HIPAA Journal.

Seattle-based Community Psychiatric Clinic, a mental health provider, fell victim to three email security breaches, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Pleasant Grove, Utah-based Premier Family Medicine is alerting 320,000 patients that their health information may have been exposed in a ransomware attack, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Metro Mobility, a transportation service for patients with disabilities in Minnesota, has alerted 15,000 patients that their information may have been exposed in a data breach, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Becton Dickinson found a vulnerability in its Pyxis drug dispensing cabinets that allows hackers to use expired credentials to gain access to patients' data and medication information, according to the HIPAA Journal.

A piece of malware has been alerted to infiltrate a blockchain system and give the hacker the ability to remotely control the user's computer, according to Decrypt.

Conway (Ark.) Regional Medical Center alerted patients and staff Aug. 23 that an unauthorized third party had gained access to employee email accounts, according to local ABC affiliate KATV.

Patients are more likely to keep coming back to a hospital or health system following a data breach if they are promptly notified of the incident, according to a study by credit reporting agency Experian and cited by the HIPAA…

Mike Cottle, IS director at 103-bed Newton (Kan.) Medical Center, focuses on keeping the hospital and patient information secure.