Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Hackers assemble in plain sight on Facebook, where they trade ideas, stories and stolen credit card information in groups dedicated to cybercrime, according to a blog from Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, a commercial threat intelligence group.

The Veterans Health Administration is notifying 4,882 veterans who were treated at the Martinsburg (W.Va.) VA Medical Center that their personal health information may have been mailed out in letters to other patients, according to a news release emailed to…

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.

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.

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.