Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Three more healthcare organizations have alerted patients that their information may have been affected from a data breach at American Medical Collection Agency, according to the HIPAA Journal.

A federal judge will allow patients to go forward with parts of their lawsuit against West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health after a data breach, according to local ABC affiliate WKOW.

Ten patients who were affected by a data breach at Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care filed a class-action lawsuit Aug. 6 against the university, according to local ABC affiliate KMIZ.

Companies and CEOs are now coughing up millions of dollars to keep and hire seasoned cybersecurity experts as hacking incidents are on the rise, according to Bloomberg.

Officials at Kansas City, Mo.-based Truman Medical Center paid hackers to regain access to parts of its computer system after being the target in a ransomware attack, according to local news station KSHB.

A federal district judge has approved a $74 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit against Premera Blue Cross for a 2014 data breach, according to the HIPAA Journal.

The Veteran Affairs Office of Inspector General found various issues at Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., in terms of policies on patient information privacy.

Two employees at Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care were targets of a phishing attack that gave an unauthorized third-party access to the email accounts between April 23 and May 1, according to the News Tribune.

Security researchers have discovered 11 vulnerabilities in Wind River's VxWorks operating system, which is used in approximately 2 billion IoT devices, medical devices and control systems, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Louisiana physicians' network Imperial Health has alerted more than 116,000 patients of a ransomware attack that may have compromised their personal information, according to the HIPAA Journal.