Cybersecurity

A patient of University of Connecticut Health is suing the health system, claiming it "failed to implement adequate and reasonable cybersecurity procedures and protocols," exposing her bank account to fraudulent activity after the health system was hacked in December, according…

The Hippocratic oath and the principles embodied in “duty of care” guide the daily actions of healthcare providers. But when it comes to information security and protecting sensitive PHI, is the healthcare community living up to those principles?

Global insurance company Marsh & McLennan partnered with various insurance companies to launch a program that evaluates cybersecurity software and technology sold to businesses, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Hackers compromised  an automatic software update tool with  malware to maliciously gain backdoor access to thousands of Asus customer computers last year, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab told online magazine Motherboard.

Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health is alerting patients of a cyberattack  last July that may have affected patients' personal information. The cyberattack targeted employee email accounts.

More than half of company CIOs believe their employees have purposefully put their organizations' data at risk in the last year, according to an Egress software company survey.

The Oregon Department of Human Services reported an email phishing attack on two million agency emails, which may have exposed more than 350,000 individuals' medical information.

A security breach at Greenville, S.C.-based St. Francis Physician Services' former medical center may have compromised data from more than 32,000 patients, HIPAA Journal reports.

A slew of Facebook employees had access to anywhere between 200 million and 600 million user passwords, dating back to 2012, according to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs and reported by CNBC.

The FDA issued a safety communication alert on March 21 warning healthcare providers and individuals with Medtronic cardiac defibrillators of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the devices' wireless technology.