Cybersecurity

A team of security researchers found a vulnerability in two versions of GE anesthesia and respiratory machines, according to TechCrunch.

DNA-testing service Vitagene shut down external access to more than 3,000 user files that were left exposed online for years, according to Bloomberg.

An employee of Los Angeles County Department of Health Services contractor Nemadji Research Corp. fell victim to a phishing attack in March that exposed 14,591 L.A. County patients' personal information, Los Angeles Times reports.

More hospital CFOs are taking on cybersecurity roles as well as being advocates for the purchasing of patient privacy solutions, a Black Book survey found.

The U.S. Cyber Command took to Twitter last week to issue a warning about a 2-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that is being exploited by hackers, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Smaller healthcare providers are more likely to struggle at following cybersecurity best practices while large healthcare providers tend to have mature, sophisticated defenses, according to a KLAS and CHIME study and cited by the HIPAA Journal.

Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System is notifying 507 patients that their information was mistakenly emailed to single recipient by an employee, according to ABC13.

Huntington, W.Va.-based Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine is seeking to dismiss a case that alleges the medical school wrongfully disclosed a patient's information, according to the West Virginia Record.

The U.S. healthcare system lost $6.2 billion in 2016 due to data breaches, with the average data breach costing healthcare organizations' $2.2 million, according to an HHS report, which includes data between 2016 and 2018.

More than 50 percent of small, medium and large healthcare organizations have implemented unannounced email phishing exercises to train their employees, according to a recent KLAS and College of Healthcare Information Management Executives report.