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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.
A class-action lawsuit was filed on June 13 in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., against Laboratory Corp. of America alleging the medical diagnostic company failed to monitor its billing and collections vendor, according to The Kansas City…
Meditab, an EMR and practice management software provider, has notified two healthcare providers in Maryland that their patients' personal health information may have been exposed, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Both Olean (N.Y.) Medical Group and Seneca Nation Health System in Salamanca, N.Y., have lost access to their computer and EHR systems following recent cyberattacks on the organizations, Olean Times Herald reports.
Most (70 percent) healthcare information technology executives said they feel “extremely” or “very” confident in their knowledge of where their organization’s sensitive data is stored, according to a recent Integris Software report.
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Nine employees within Oregon's Department of Human Services opened a phishing email on Jan. 8 that may have exposed around 645,000 people, according to the Statesman Journal.
After disclosing a March data breach that exposed millions of patients' health information, the American Medical Collection Agency has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to SC Magazine.
Piles of personal medical information have been blowing away after being left in an alley outside a shuttered Illinois medical facility, according to CBS Chicago.
The spread of medical misinformation around topics like vaccines and statin medications is increasingly threatening U.S. and global health. In order to combat this, medical, scientific, regulatory and law enforcement organizations must employ an active cyber response plan to mitigate…
A Boardman, Ohio-based urology program was cyberattacked on June 10, with hackers demanding $75,000 in bitcoin for the encrypted files, according to local NBC affiliate WFMJ.