Cybersecurity

Cincinnati-based TriHealth has alerted 2,433 patients that their data may have been shared with a student mentee in June 2018.

Baltimore city officials that turned to Gmail accounts as a workaround after being hit with a ransomware attack May 7 had their email accounts disabled by Google, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Medical Informatics Engineering, a medical records service provider, agreed to pay the Office for Civil Rights at HHS $100,000 to settle a HIPAA breach.

Inmediata Health Group, a healthcare clearinghouse company, has notified its customers of a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of more than 1.5 million people.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine alerted around 900 patients that their information may have been improperly viewed by a former medical assistant at the hospital, according to The Inquirer.

Police in Tomball, Texas, are investigating a security incident that left thousands of patient medical records in a dumpster behind a strip mall, according to local news station KPRC.

The number of reported vulnerabilities for medical devices and other technologies has more than doubled since 2016, with more than 1,302 flaws registered in 2018, according to SF Gate.

After nearly two weeks since being infected with ransomware, Baltimore city health officials and other departments are still unable to access systems, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Seattle-based Bloodworks, Northwest is notifying 1,893 patients of a March data breach that may have exposed patients' personal information.

A Paramus, N.J.-based orthopedic surgeon is alerting patients that their personal information may have been exposed due to a ransomware attack in January at his practice.