Thomas August became the chief information security officer of John Muir Health in Walnut Creek, Calif., in 2015, after serving as the director of information security at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare.
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.
Forsyth, Ga.-based Monroe County Hospital mailed letters to 10,970 patients to alert them that their personal health information may have been exposed, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Two flaws were discovered in a workstation used to dock an infusion pump commonly used at hospitals that could allow hackers to remotely hijack and control the device, according to TechCrunch.
It all happened in less than 48 hours: a ransomware attack, vital hospital computer systems shut down, a bitcoin payment secured on the dark web, and decryption codes used to make systems operational again. A cyberattack no one saw coming…
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health patients filed a lawsuit against the health system for allegedly sharing patients' private information, attained through the health system's website, with technology giants such as Facebook and Google, Courthouse News Service reports.
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Florida law firm Morgan & Morgan filed a class-action lawsuit on June 12 in New Jersey against Quest Diagnostics after the laboratory testing company disclosed that it had experienced a data breach that exposed 11.9 million patients, according to the…
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy announced on June 12 the eight finalists in the first stage of the Opioid Detection Challenge, which is offering $1.55 million in prizes for an automated tool to detect opioids in…
Humana alerts 5,600 members after hackers posed as physician group and possibly exposed patient data
Humana has notified 5,569 members of a security incident that may have exposed members' personal information.
Many hospitals — 83 percent — have seen an influx in the number of cyberattacks in the past year, according to a survey by cybersecurity firm Carbon Black.
Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corp. of America will likely not face any reputational damages or client losses following a data breach that exposed the information of nearly 20 million patients combined because they have such strong positions in the clinical…