Since 2014, more than 1.4 million Texans have had their health records stolen, making hospitals in the state most at-risk for cyberattacks, according to data from HHS and cited by Texas Public Radio.
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Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health notified about 12,000 patients of a Feb. 7 phishing attack, according to online newspaper MassLive.
Elizabethtown, Ky.-based Hardin Memorial Hospital reverted to manual operations over the weekend after experiencing a disturbance to its IT systems April 5, WAVE, an NBC affiliate, reports.
Humana told 522 members that a limited amount of their personal data may have been exposed during a data security incident at the beginning of 2019, according to ABC affiliate KSAT.
A Cleveland-based University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital employee emailed a message to a group of patients, inadvertently allowing the recipients to see each other's email addresses, according to a news release emailed to Becker's Hospital Review.
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New research prompted the Department of Homeland Security to resend a warning on cybersecurity vulnerabilities in electronic medical devices, according to the Digital Journal.
Israeli cybersecurity experts created malware that can alter CT scans to indicate a healthy patient has cancer and a sick patient is healthy, according to The Washington Post.
Numerous privacy incidents at hospitals, IT suppliers and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
Battle Creek, Mich.-based Brookside ENT and Hearing Center is shutting down after cyber hackers deleted all the practice's patient records, WWMT, a CBS affiliate, reports.
UCLA Health has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by patients after a data breach put their personal and health information at risk, according to the HIPAA Journal.