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.
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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.
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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.
Medical device and software developer Zoll is notifying 277,319 patients of a security incident that put their personal and medical information at risk.
Cybersecurity issues are increasingly prevalent in medical devices as the tools being developed are more connected to software. These developers are turning to the FDA to develop guidance, according to Bloomberg Law.
CEOs were more likely to receive pay raises after their firms suffered a cybersecurity breach, according to a Warwick Business School study.
Mississippi is preparing an antitrust case against Google over the tech giant's control of consumer data and the privacy practices it uses to protect it, according to CNBC.